This paper investigates the robustness of recent findings on the effect of parental background on child health. We are … particularly concerned with the extent to which their finding that income effects on child health are the result of spurious … and child health are correlated with some common unobservable (say, low parental time preference) then least squares …

This paper examines the impact of outdoor and indoor pollution on children's health from birth until the age of three …. Secondly, we are able to follow the effect of pollution exposure on a child's health during the first three years of life … significantly negative impact for some pollutants on infant health during early childhood. In comparison to outdoor pollution …

The prevalence and importance of children's physical health problems have been increasingly recognized in recent years …. Physical health problems of children such as obesity, motor impairment and chronic diseases cause social costs. Further, they … intergenerational link and transmission of both maternal and paternal health on children's health in Germany. We investigate this issue …

analysis is based on a sample of over 13,000 children (and their parents) drawn from the Health Survey for England. In … hypothesis that the NHS has a protective effect on the health of children in England. …In an influential study Case et al. (2002) documented a positive relationship between family income and child health in …

Height-for-age (HA) and weight-for-age (WA) of children are standard measures to study the determinants of stunting and … therefore at the dynamics of height and weight. Considering HA a child's health stock and WA nutritional investment, we develop … an overlapping generations model. The main features of the model are self-productivity of health stocks and the dynamic …

quality (in the form of health outcomes) and the number of children in the family at a time when genuine poverty still existed …This paper examines effects of socio-economic conditions on the standardised heights and body mass index of children in … opportunity to explore the determinants of child health in the era before the welfare state. We examine the trade-off between the …

Research on the socioeconomic determinants of health is often based on parental assessments of their children's health …. We assess this approach by comparing directly evaluations from parents, teachers, children and psychiatrists of three … aspects of child mental health from two major UK surveys. We test whether the different observers give reports that are …

British children who were all potentially exposed in the womb. Epidemic effects are identified using geographic variation in a … at 7 and 11, but only for the offspring of mother's with certain health characteristics. By contrast, the impact of the … across maternal health and socioeconomic indicators. Taken together, our results point to multiple channels linking foetal …

local children. Reduced-form estimates offer evidence of adverse impacts almost 1.5 years after the shock: a worsening of … children's anthropometrics of 0.3 standard deviations, an increase of 15 to 20 percentage points in the incidence of infectious … diseases and an increase of roughly 7 percentage points in mortality for children under five. I also exploit intra- and inter …

This paper examines the determinants of the health of children ages 6 to 19, as reported in the Child Development … health and the three measures of religion/religiosity. Those children (self-report or primary caregiver report) who have … overall health and psychological health of the child. Three measures of religion/religiosity of the child are employed …