early health shocks for children. We estimate a human capital production function and establish that, for this sample, early …An open question in the literature is whether families compensate or reinforce the impact of child health shocks … negative early health shocks at ages 0-3, the other twin sibling who did suffer negative health shocks received RMB 305 more in …

early health shocks for children. We estimate a human capital production function and establish that, for this sample, early …An open question in the literature is whether families compensate or reinforce the impact of child health shocks … negative early health shocks at ages 0-3, the other twin sibling who did suffer negative health shocks received RMB 305 more in …

The aim of this paper is to determine if there is a causal relationship between children's time spent on media related … been increasing. It has been suggested in the literature that changes in children's media use is an important explanation … for the observed increase in children's weight. I investigate whether or not this hypothesis is supported by data …

that threaten the health of the resident population. In reality, extensive empirical research over several decades and … spent in the host country, however, and immigrants' health status converges toward (or below) that of native residents. …

early health shocks for children. We estimate a human capital production function and establish that, for this sample, early …An open question in the literature is whether families compensate or reinforce the impact of child health shocks … negative early health shocks at ages 0-3, the other twin sibling who did suffer negative health shocks received RMB 305 more in …

children, the future labour force, and thereby heighten the economic task of addressing the aging problem. A nationwide time … offs between infant health and development and full time maternal employment in the early months of life. Time is an … human capital through unpaid work bearing and raising children. Current retirement income policies disadvantage and …

Family courts now encourage both parents to maintain contact with their children following separation/divorce, driven … by the belief that such contact benefits the child. We test this assumption with a population sample of children from … nonnuclear families in Denmark, using distance between non-residential parents and their children to proxy for contact. The …

, behavioral, and health outcomes for a population sample of children from nonnuclear families in Denmark. Instrumental variables …A substantial and growing fraction of children across Europe and the US live in single parent households. Law practices … are evolving to encourage both parents to maintain contact with their children following parental separation …

, especially among British children. Parental behavior appears to respond to permanent family-specific unobservables and to child … their prenatal inputs across children. Evidence of equal concerns emerges also from the analysis of breastfeeding decisions …