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 …

, degenerative conditions of adult health, including heart disease and type 2 diabetes, may be triggered by circumstances decades …, educational attainment, and income, along with health. In the process, they have provided some of the most credible observational …

specification and it is preferable to use more sensitive indicators of newborn health. …

congestion contributes significantly to poor health among infants. (JEL I12, J13, Q51, Q53, R41) …

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 …

Scholars have been examining the relationship between fertility and unemployment for more than a century. Most studies … find that fertility falls with unemployment in the short run, but it is not known whether these negative effects persist … period 1975 to 2010, we analyze both the short and long-run effects of unemployment on fertility. We follow fixed cohorts of …