risks analysis yields several striking results. 1) Females have only a 28% chance to die of cancer when they have children … unmarried males); 3) females with children have only a 34% risk to die of heart disease and 4) a 53% chance of dying from … infections (compared to females without children); 5) married men have an increased expectation of 23% to die of heart disease …

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 … highest for first-born children with a very young mother. Also some other groups of children with a young mother, or of high …

children. But what if children also affect their parents' human capital? Using exogenous variation in education, arising from a … Swedish compulsory schooling reform in the 1950s and 1960s, we address this question by studying the causal effect of children …-sectional relationship between children's education and their parents' longevity. Our causal estimates tell a different story; children …

the lifecycle, education, social benefits take-up, and adult mortality. For this purpose, we have linked a unique dataset … that lower birth weight children are more likely to avail of social insurance programs such as unemployment and sickness … insurance and that birth weight matters for adult mortality. We supplement our main analysis with more recent data, which …

Emergency Transportation System (NETS) on neonatal and infant mortality and long-term impairments. We utilize gradual expansion …, using changing distance as an instrument. Improving access to delivering in a city with a NICU decreases 0-6-day mortality …

health, self-rated health to mortality. Our analytic sample includes about 8,000 Chinese persons age above 60. Using the …

positive selection on health from high infant mortality rates during this period (18 percent), our findings suggest a strong …

children experienced a health shock at different ages. We show that these families have very similar characteristics and were …