We investigate restructuring of the health system in Brazil motivated to operationalize universal health coverage …

We estimate the impact of parental health on adult children’s labor market out- comes. We focus on health shocks which …

We estimate the impact of parental health on adult children's labor market outcomes. We focus on health shocks which …

We estimate the impact of parental health on adult children's labor market outcomes. We focus on health shocks which …

We study the impact of adult children's internal migration on the health and subjective well-being of elderly parents … positive effect of the migration of daughters on parents' health and life satisfaction, but no such beneficial effects when …

home environment of disadvantaged families, on child health in the first 3 years of life. We recruited and randomized 233 … commencing at 2 years. Maternal reports of child health are assessed at 6, 12, 18, 24, and 36 months. Treatment effects are … health (10.0 pp), hospitalizations (8.2 pp), immunizations (8.6 pp), chest infections (12.2 pp) and the number of health …

We contribute to the literature on the determinants of socioeconomic health disparities by studying how the health … function as a mediator between family background and subsequent poor health behavior, potentially reconciling previous mixed … evidence on the relationship between child health and social status. Using data from a unique German child health survey we …

Birth weight is an important aspect of public health which has been linked to increased risk of infant death, increased …, including test scores, hospital stays and health. An advantage of the data is that I am able to control for a number of … conditions and later outcomes. -- Early Life Conditions ; Birth Weight ; Health Inequalities ; Test Scores …

Early life conditions have been linked to various domains of later life health, including cardiovascular outcomes … health are related to hypertension, although there is cross country heterogeneity in these effects. I account for potential … omitted variable bias by using aggregate measures of public health at birth, which are plausibly exogenous to the individual …