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 …

In this paper, we examine how parental health affects children's development of personality traits and problem behavior … significant impacts on children's emotional symptoms, hyperactivity and neuroticism. Paternal health seems to be less relevant for … the development of these non-cognitive characteristics. However, we observe that paternal health shocks cause children to …

well as academic achievement. Our data are taken from the Mannheim Study of Children at Risk (MARS), an epidemiological …

In this paper, we examine how orphanhood affects children’s educational and health outcomes in eleven sub … with a biological parent) to orphans. Using household fixed-effects estimation, we provide evidence that children not …-Saharan African countries. Our analysis is based on a comparison of orphans and non-orphaned children living under the same conditions …

This paper examines the impact of outdoor and indoor pollution on children’s health from birth until the age of three …, our results further support the advice to parents of young children not to smoke. -- Indoor and outdoor pollution ; health …. Secondly, we are able to follow the effect of pollution exposure on a child’s health during the first three years of life …

-run delay in return to work, which might rationalize a negative causal health effect. Breaking down the results by mothers’ pre …-birth health status suggests that the higher incidence of long-term sickness absence among the treated may be explained by the fact … that the reform has facilitated re-entry of a negative health selection into the labor market. …

an economic foundation on the empirical estimation of the impact of certain factors on educational outcomes. …