This chapter provides an overview of the literature on child health in developed countries. I first lay out a simple … economic model of the demand for child health inputs, and discuss whether the evidence is consistent with that model. Next, two … main causes of market failure in the market for child health inputs — lack of information and externalities — are analyzed …

This chapter provides an overview of the literature linking health, health insurance and labor market outcomes such as … first part of the paper focuses on the relationship between health and labor market outcomes. The empirical literature … surveyed suggests that poor health reduces the capacity to work and has substantive effects on wages, labor force participation …

income and maternal education. We find that mental health conditions, and especially ADHD, have large negative effects on … future test scores and schooling attainment, regardless of family income and maternal education …. Fourth, we examine a range of outcomes. Fifth, we ask how the effects of mental health conditions are mediated by family …

for maternal education Our findings using the two approaches are similar. Higher maternal education improves infant health …We estimate the effect of maternal education on birth outcomes using data from the Vital Statistics Natality files for … 1970 to 1999. We also assess the importance of four potential channels through which maternal education may improve birth …

Evidence shows that pollution exposure early in life is detrimental to near-term health, and an increasing body of … evidence suggests that early-childhood health influences health and human capital outcomes later in life. This article reviews …

years of education. Yet while children can be permanently damaged at this age, an important message is that the damage can …

years of education. Yet while children can be permanently damaged at this age, an important message is that the damage can …

child mental health problem. Our innovations include the use of large nationally representative samples of children, the use … effects to control for omitted variables. We find large negative effects on test scores and schooling attainment suggesting … that mental health conditions are a more important determinant of average outcomes than physical health conditions …

There are many possible pathways between parental education, income, and health, and between child health and education … status (as measured by education, income, occupation, or in some cases area of residence) and child health, and between child … health and adult education or income. Specifically, I ask two questions: What is the evidence regarding whether parental …

We use data from the third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey to examine the prevalence and determinants … interpret our results using a model in which investments in health capital are affected by both resource constraints and a human …