This paper investigates the robustness of recent findings on the effect of parental background on child health. We are … particularly concerned with the extent to which their finding that income effects on child health are the result of spurious … and child health are correlated with some common unobservable (say, low parental time preference) then least squares …

paid maternity leave is appropriate for the maximal development of the child’s cognitive ability. While this study controls …

.g. time spent reading to the child and teaching the child to write, sing etc.). …