This is the first study investigating the causal effect of maternal education on child's health and schooling outcomes … that purpose, we draw on a rich German panel data set (SOEP) containing information about three generations. This allows … significant effects on schooling outcomes for both sexes. And, we find substantial effects on health behaviour for adolescent …

This study investigates the effects of maternal education on child's health and health behavior. We draw on a rich … German panel data set containing information about three generations. This allows instrumenting maternal education by the … effects on health behavior for adolescent daughters, but neither for adolescent sons nor for the health status of newborns. We …

, extend the empirical approach in two ways. First, we add health as an additional outcome di- mension. Second, we apply a semi …

, extend the empirical approach in two ways. First, we add health as an additional outcome dimension. Second, we apply a semi …

, extend the empirical approach in two ways. First, we add health as an additional outcome dimension. Second, we apply a semi …

%, only part of it due to reduced work hours. We find no evidence of an adverse health effect of having children. …

, extend the empirical approach in two ways. First, we add health as an additional outcome dimension. Second, we apply a semi …

This paper examines the causal effect of childcare provision on grandparents' health in the US. We propose the sex … and invest more in their grandchildren than parents of sons. We estimate 2SLS regressions using data from the Health and … Retirement Study. The results suggest that childcare provision is not beneficial for grandparents' health and may even be …

We investigate the causal impact of retirement on health care utilization. Using SHARE data (from 2004 to 2013) for 10 … European countries, we show that health care utilization increases when individuals retire. This is true both for the number of … affected. We also find that the impact of retirement on health care utilization is significantly stronger for workers retiring …