adulthood in worse health and with less education than wealthier children, these results indicate that a key determinant of …, educations and social status, that children who experience poor health have significantly lower educational attainment, and … effects on educational attainment and initial adult health. Taken together with earlier findings that poorer children enter …

national sample of mostly unwed parents and their children-a group at high risk of living in poverty. We account for the … working, the mother's hours of work, and the father's hours of work. These results suggest that children's health problems may …We estimate the effect of poor child health on the labor supply of mothers and fathers post welfare reform, using a …

child health on father presence. We look at whether parents live in the same household 12-18 months after the child's birth … involved) during the same period. We find that having an infant in poor health reduces the likelihood that parents will live …

pollution have lower wages, are more likely to be in poverty as adults, have fewer years of completed education, and are less …Although pollution is widespread, there is little evidence about how it might harm children's long run outcomes. Using … the detailed, geocoded data that follows national representative cohorts of children born to the National Longitudinal …

skill segregation on upward income mobility. We find that cities in the south of Brazil are more effective engines of upward … the division of labor, may hinder the ability of Brazil's northern cities to offer more opportunities for escaping poverty …