We investigate long-run effects of episodes of hunger experienced as a child on health status and behavioral outcomes … suggest that individual behavior is a pathway between early life shocks and adult health: We find that those who experienced … hunger spend a larger fraction of income on food. Taken together, our results confirm that in addition to the well …

frühkindliche Betreuung und Ganztagseinrichtungen ergeben sich bessere Bildungschancen speziell für die Kinder aus diesen Familien … auch für die öffentliche Hand aus. Den zusätzlichen jährlichen Kosten für das flächendeckende Ganztagsangebot für Kinder … Alleinerziehender stehen Einsparungen aus vermiedenen Transferleistungen an die Eltern und bei der Nachqualifizierung der Kinder sowie …

In this paper, we examine how parental health affects children's development of personality traits and problem behavior … significant impacts on children's emotional symptoms, hyperactivity and neuroticism. Paternal health seems to be less relevant for … the development of these non-cognitive characteristics. However, we observe that paternal health shocks cause children to …

We examine how parental health shocks affect children's non-cognitive skills. Based on a German mother-and-child data … identify effects on outcomes for children at ages of three and six years. At the age of six, we observe that maternal health … base, we draw on significant changes in self-reported parental health as an exogenous source of health variation to …