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

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

economic good or bad, and hence serves as a prime example of irrational behavior reducing individual health and happiness …. Contrary to previous research, we find no health impact when TV consumption increases. For life satisfaction, we even find …

This paper considers the impact of adverse health shocks that hit an individual's partner on subjective well …

This paper estimates the effect of informal care provision on female caregiver's health. We use data from the German … care provision on mental health which fades out over time. Five years after care provision there are no significant effects … left. Both short- and medium-term effects on physical health are much smaller and insignificant throughout. …

and mental health. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and fixed-effect regression models, we show that … those individuals who socialize more frequently enjoy better mental health. We also find that stronger social ties moderate …