A large literature has documented links between harmful early life exposures and later life health and socioeconomic … generation. Our study traces the impacts of in utero exposure to the 1918 influenza pandemic on the outcomes of the children and … educational, economic, and health outcomes.Institutional subscribers to the NBER working paper series, and residents of developing …

We provide new evidence on the effect of adolescent health behaviors/outcomes (obesity, depression, smoking, and … Adult Health. We take two different approaches to deal with omitted variable bias and reverse causality. Our first approach … attends to the issue of reverse causality by using health polygenic scores (PGSs) as proxies for actual adolescent health …

Children form social ties along dimensions of gender and race/ethnicity, and thus may differ greatly in exposure to … peer health and also in reactivity to peer influence. This paper estimates heterogeneity in the peer effects of obesity … New York City (NYC) FITNESSGRAM initiative on over 1.6 million children in grades K-8, we find that males and females are …

This paper explores gene-environmental interactions between family environments and children's genetic scores in … children to leverage their genetic gifts to achieve high levels of educational attainments. The multigenerational information … and genetic data contained in the Health and Retirement Study is used to separate two mechanisms of intergenerational …