There is considerable uncertainty about how reproductive factors affect child mortality. Joint determinants are … diverging results. According to very simple models estimated from DHS data from 28 countries in sub-Saharan Africa, mortality is … multilevel-multiprocess model. According to the latter models, the mortality of a first child goes up as the mother's age …

We examine the effect of survey measurement error on the empirical relationship between child mental health and … personal and family characteristics, and between child mental health and educational progress. Our contribution is to use … unique UK survey data that contains (potentially biased) assessments of each child's mental state from three observers …

We examine the effect of survey measurement error on the empirical relationship between child mental health and … personal and family characteristics, and between child mental health and educational progress. Our contribution is to use … unique UK survey data that contains (potentially biased) assessments of each child's mental state from three observers …

extend this research to understand the influence of witnessing a sibling death as a child on subsequent educational and … fertility outcomes in Indonesia. Using panel data and a sibling fixed effects model, we identify this relationship based on … variation in the age of surviving children within the same family. Our findings strongly support the importance and persistence …

and their children's health and developmental outcomes. Our estimation sample is large, virtually free of attrition, and … assigned. In adults, we find no evidence that wealth impacts mortality or health care utilization, with the possible exception … mortality one sixth as large the cross-sectional gradient. In our intergenerational analyses, we find that wealth increases …

) mortality later in life. In addition, we examine to what extent these long-run effects run by way of cognitive ability and … (across the full range) and CV mortality rate later in life is significantly stronger if the individual is born in a recession …. This is not explained by differential fertility by social class over the cycle. Ability itself, as measured at age 10 …

explore the extent to which the health effects of job displacement extend to the children of displaced workers and also the … first to consider whether there are any harmful effects for children who are not yet born when the separation occurs. I use … detailed work and fertility histories from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to estimate the effect of parents' job …

the concentration of pollutants at the local level, and (2) the humpshaped evolution of child mortality ratios between …Environmental pollution adversely affects children’s probability to survive to adulthood, reduces thus parental … expenditures on child quality and increases the number of births necessary to achieve a desired family size. We argue that this …

1,000,000 children born in Denmark between 1981 and 2010. Using family fixed effects models, we find a positive and … robust birth order effect; lower parity children are less healthy at birth. Looking at the potential mechanisms, we find that …

-born siblings are healthier than the first-born child, and increase with birth order. Consequently, first-born children are more … order, health at birth and in childhood, and parental health investment. High-quality administrative data on children born … familylevel factors. In a sample of families with two to four children, we find statistically significant and quantitatively …