provide money and/or psychic income. Health behaviour affects human capital and is itself affected by the individual's human … between Human Capital and Health Behaviour. …

health outcomes using two data sources: the National Health Interview Surveys (NHIS) and the Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS … health and maternal reports of the number of bed days in the past year (i.e. morbidity). The NIS data was used to examine the … known to be sensitive to medical intervention and are objective measures of children's health. The results of this paper …

In this paper we extensively analyze the impact of child health and other family characteristics on the cognitive … literature. First, we find only a weak relationship between several measures of child health and child cognitive development …

The purpose of this paper is to provide evidence on the effect of child health on marital stability and family … structure within an economic framework. We use the 1988 National Health Interview Survey's Child Health Supplement, with a … whether it increases her chance of living in an extended family. Using two different measures of child health, we find that …