This paper is an empirical investigation of childhood and adolescent health and cognitive development as determined by … estimated to have no significant influence on health and cognitive development, but parents' education a strong positive …

This paper provides new evidence on how household labor supply responds to fatal and severe non-fatal health shocks in … families' health and labor market outcomes, and construct counterfactuals to affected households by using households that … experience the same shock but a few years in the future. We find that fatal health shocks lead to an immediate increase in the …

An open question in the literature is whether families compensate or reinforce the impact of child health shocks … negative early health shocks at ages 0-3, the other twin sibling who did suffer negative health shocks received RMB 305 more in … terms of health investments, but received RMB 182 less in terms of educational investments in the 12 months prior to the …

establish that child health- and education-related human capital outcomes are affected by resources of extended family members …

Wages, labor market participation, hours worked, and savings differ by gender and marital status. In addition, women … models and by calibrating them using data on males only. In this paper we ask whether ignoring gender and marriage in both …

relationships between religiosity, age, and gender, as well as the effects of religiosity on a range of health measures and health … between religion and health. The topic is particularly germane for the health of women and of the elderly, who are much more … not clear why women are so much more religious than men. In most countries, religious people report better health; they …