early health shocks for children. We estimate a human capital production function and establish that, for this sample, early …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 …

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

Newborn health is an important component in the chain of intergenerational transmission of disadvantage. This paper … contributes to the literature on the determinants of health at birth in two ways. First, we analyze the role of maternal …

We examine multi-generational impacts of positive in utero and early life health interventions. We focus on the 1980s …'s health outcomes at birth. We find strong evidence that the health benefits associated with treated generations' in utero … birth weight. Later childhood exposure to Medicaid does not lead to persistent health effects across generations. The return …

beneficial impacts on health, children's future labor incomes, crime, education, and mothers' labor incomes, with greater …

A growing economics literature establishes a causal link between in utero shocks and health and human capital in … background and county of residence in early childhood to adult health and economic outcomes. The identification comes from …

This paper examines the influence of health conditions on academic performance during adolescence. To account for the … endogeneity of health outcomes and their interactions with risky behaviors we exploit natural variation within a set of genetic … statistical properties for ADHD, depression and obesity. They help to reveal a new dynamism from poor health to lower academic …

A large literature has documented links between harmful early life exposures and later life health and socioeconomic … generation. Our study traces the impacts of in utero exposure to the 1918 influenza pandemic on the outcomes of the children and … educational, economic, and health outcomes …

performance, shift the entire academic performance distribution, and negatively impact both younger and older children. We provide …

in life. This paper evaluates the parental response to variation in non-cognitive skills among their children in rural … Gansu province, China, employing a household fixed effects specification; non-cognitive skills are defined as the inverse of …). The results suggest that on average, parents invest no more in terms of educational expenditure in children who have …