This paper investigates the economic returns to parental health. To account for potential endogeneity between parental … health and child outcomes, we leverage longitudinal microdata from Indonesia to estimate individual fixed effects models. Our … results show that the economic returns to parental health are high. We show that maternal health not only significantly …

identified gender inequality as a common predictor for such child health deprivations. At household level, studies support this … finding by showing that maternal education improves children's health outcomes. Yet authors disagree on whether education … fathers' education; thus, the gender perspective is incomplete. Therefore, this paper investigates how and through which …