transmits to children and grandchildren. Our findings indicate that third generation males (females) tend to have higher mental … health scores if their paternal grandfather (maternal grandmother) was exposed to a famine during preadolescence. These …

We estimate average causal effects of early-life hunger on late-life health by applying instrumental variable …

This paper examines the impact of outdoor and indoor pollution on children's health from birth until the age of three …. Secondly, we are able to follow the effect of pollution exposure on a child's health during the first three years of life … significantly negative impact for some pollutants on infant health during early childhood. In comparison to outdoor pollution …

child health can provide an important explanation for disparities in children's human capital development across different … willingness to compete with others. Our findings suggest that health problems arenegatively related to children's willingness to …-cognitive skills. We analyze data from economic experiments with preschoolers and their mothers to investigate whether child health can …

This is the first study investigating the causal effect of maternal education on child's health and schooling outcomes … instrumenting maternal education by the number of her siblings while conditioning on a set of variables describing the grandparents … variation in the years of education by affecting the household resources available per child. We present evidence for strong and …

Self-productivity is a crucial feature in the process of skill formation. It means that skills and health acquired at … one stage in the life cycle enhance skills and health formation at later stages. This paper presents an empirical … over time. A one percent increase in birth weight increase child's noncognitive skills by 0.34 percent and child's health …

By investigating how locally available early childhood education and care quality relates to maternal employment … children, day-care quality was unrelated to employment. …

We estimate the causal effect of maternal education on the mental health of mother's children in late adolescence and … adulthood. Theoretical considerations are ambiguous about a causal effect of maternal education on children's mental health. To … causal protective effect of maternal education on children's mental health. Instead, our empirical results suggest a moderate …

Does a high regional concentration of immigrants of the same ethnicity affect immigrant children's acquisition of host … exposure to a higher own-ethnic concentration impairs immigrant children's host-country language proficiency and increases …