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 …

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 …

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 …

In this paper, we examine how parental health affects children's development of personality traits and problem behavior …. Based on a German mother-and-child data base, we draw on observed parental health shocks as a more exogenous source of … health variation to identify these effects and control for child and family characteristics including variables reflecting …

The prevalence and importance of children's physical health problems have been increasingly recognized in recent years …. Physical health problems of children such as obesity, motor impairment and chronic diseases cause social costs. Further, they … can lead directly to adult physical health problems, which cause additional social costs. This paper examines the …

technologies, and workers' health outcomes using novel and representative German linked employer-employee data. Based on changes in … and service-oriented tasks across all workers, but exacerbates health inequality between cognitive and manual workers … manual workers' subjective health and increase sick leave, while leaving cognitive workers unaffected. We provide evidence …

data to examine whether landowning and landless elites differ in the extent to which they support health infrastructure … health-promoting public goods improves with the political influence of the landless elite. We also provide evidence for two … health of the poor. Finally, we illustrate that the relevance of these two channels differs for those health-related public …