-run delay in return to work, which might rationalize a negative causal health effect. Breaking down the results by mothers’ pre … duration from two to six months in 1979 and mothers' post-birth long-term sickness absence over a period of three decades after … childbirth. Using a regression discontinuity design, we first show that the leave extension caused mothers to significantly delay …

Using experimental data of children and their mothers, this paper explores the intergenerational relationship of … impatience. The child’s impatience stems from a delay of gratification experiment. Mother’s impatience has been assessed by a … choice task where the mothers faced trade-offs between a smaller-sooner and a larger-later monetary reward with a delay of …

aspects of mother’s time preference are related to her preschool child’s ability to delay gratification. We provide a new …. We apply the procedure to a sample of 213 mother-child pairs and show that especially mother’s beta parameter is related …-Hyperbolic Discounting ; Preschool Children …

In this paper, we examine how orphanhood affects children’s educational and health outcomes in eleven sub …-Saharan African countries. Our analysis is based on a comparison of orphans and non-orphaned children living under the same conditions …. We also examine the impacts of various family structures and compare social orphans (non-orphaned children not living …

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 …

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 …