despite reduced transfers. We find precise zero effects on total health expenditures for both mothers and children. However …How does welfare affect the prosperity of mothers and their children? We study this question using a Canadian welfare … reform and by linking administrative welfare records to tax returns, nearly all medical spending, and children's educational …

home environment of disadvantaged families, on child health in the first 3 years of life. We recruited and randomized 233 … commencing at 2 years. Maternal reports of child health are assessed at 6, 12, 18, 24, and 36 months. Treatment effects are … health (10.0 pp), hospitalizations (8.2 pp), immunizations (8.6 pp), chest infections (12.2 pp) and the number of health …

century to examine effects of early life conditions on later life health. Our main identification is public health …

Birth weight is an important aspect of public health which has been linked to increased risk of infant death, increased …, including test scores, hospital stays and health. An advantage of the data is that I am able to control for a number of … conditions and later outcomes. -- Early Life Conditions ; Birth Weight ; Health Inequalities ; Test Scores …

Early life conditions have been linked to various domains of later life health, including cardiovascular outcomes … health are related to hypertension, although there is cross country heterogeneity in these effects. I account for potential … omitted variable bias by using aggregate measures of public health at birth, which are plausibly exogenous to the individual …

While much is now known about the effects of physical health shocks to pregnant women on the outcomes of the in … two children with the same mother but where a parent of the mother died during one of the pregnancies - augmented with a …