There are many possible pathways between parental education, income, and health, and between child health and education … status (as measured by education, income, occupation, or in some cases area of residence) and child health, and between child … health and adult education or income. Specifically, I ask two questions: What is the evidence regarding whether parental …

-SES children reap both larger gains from having high age 7 test scores and smaller losses from having low age 7 test scores. The … opposite is true among high-SES children who suffer larger losses from low scores and smaller gains from high scores. However …

children born to less educated and minority mothers are more likely to be exposed to pollution in utero and that white, college …

,000 children born between 1979 and 1987 in the Canadian province of Manitoba. These children are followed until 2006, and their … records are linked to provincial registries with outcomes data. We compare children with health conditions to their own …

between two possible explanations. The first is that low-SES children are less able to respond to a given health shock. The … second is that low SES children experience more shocks. We show, using panel data on Canadian children that: 1) the gradient … we estimate in the cross section is very similar to that estimated previously using U.S. children; 2) both high and low …

, and health status using data from the National Child Development Study. The study has followed the cohort of children born …