The incidence of young Latino children obesity is a public health concern. Among 5-year-olds, 16% of Latinos are obese …

We provide novel evidence on the impact of a child's health shock on parental labor market outcomes. To identify the … timing of the health shock. We do this by comparing parents across families in similar parental and child age cohorts whose … children experienced a health shock at different ages. We show that these families have very similar characteristics and were …

We provide novel evidence on the impact of a child's health shock on parental labor market outcomes. To identify the … timing of the health shock. We do this by comparing parents across families in similar parental and child age cohorts whose … children experienced a health shock at different ages. We show that these families have very similar characteristics and were …

positive selection on health from high infant mortality rates during this period (18 percent), our findings suggest a strong … during the pandemic are shorter as child/teenagers, less educated, and more likely to have serious health problems, including …