compared to the surrounding cohorts. The results indicate that investments in early-life health may have far reaching effects …

cause of death with parents' labour market outcomes, health outcomes, marital status, and subsequent fertility. We exploit …

industrial (waste water and dust) pollution. Auxiliary regressions show that conditional on income, northern provinces have lower … industrial waste water pollution; non-coastal and provinces with smaller secondary industry shares have lower industrial (waste … water, COD, and dust) pollution; provinces with smaller state-owned enterprises share have lower industrial COD pollution …

We use the Islamic holy month of Ramadan as a natural experiment in fasting and fetal health. In Michigan births 1989 …

's counterfactual work behavior. We show that extending parental leave has significant positive effects on children's health and human …

overall improvement in the health at birth (as measured by the low birth weight indicator) of the cohorts exposed to the shock …. Moreover, we find significant improvements in health at birth exclusively for boys and not for girls. This effect seems to be … fetuses and, as a result of this selection in utero, at birth, one should observe significant improvements in health outcomes …

This paper interprets accidents occurring on the way to and from work as negative health shocks to identify the causal … effect of health on labor market outcomes. We argue that in our sample of exactly matched treated and control workers, these … health shocks are quasi-randomly assigned. A fixed-effects difference-in-differences approach estimates a negative and …

We study the contribution of health-related behaviors to the health-education gradient by distinguishing between short … behaviors in the health production function. Focusing on self-reported poor health as our health outcome, we find that education … has a protective effect for European males and females aged 50+. We also find that the mediating effects of health …