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 … significant effects on schooling outcomes for both sexes. And, we find substantial effects on health behaviour for adolescent …

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 …

Gesundheit der Neugeborenen erachtet, die über den Indikator Frühgeburt bestimmt werden kann. Die vorliegende Analyse eines …

We examine how parental health shocks affect children's non-cognitive skills. Based on a German mother-and-child data … identify effects on outcomes for children at ages of three and six years. At the age of six, we observe that maternal health … base, we draw on significant changes in self-reported parental health as an exogenous source of health variation to …

condition if their children attend formal care, whereas no such effect is found with regard to mothers' mental health. Overall … health is affected by whether they place their child in formal day care or not. Furthermore, the effects of formal child care …, there is evidence that mothers placing their children in formal care interact with them more frequently. …

Familien schaffen Gesundheit, aber der Wandel familiärer Strukturen wird für viele negative gesundheitliche … Veränderungen in der Bevölkerung verantwortlich gemacht. Wie entwickelt sich die Gesundheit von jüngeren Kindern heute in …, dass Kinder in traditionellen Ehen nicht generell gesünder sind als Kinder in anderen Familien. So ist das Risiko, dass …

of physical and mental health for a sample of German adolescents. In a first step, we estimate sibling correlations and … and mental health, neighbor correlations are still substantial in relation to sibling correlations. Thus, compared to …

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 …