also focus on improving the health of disadvantaged children. -- Health inequality ; human capital formation ; childhood …We use unique administrative German data to examine the role of childhood health for the intergenerational transmission … of human capital. Specifically, we examine the extent to which a comprehensive list of health conditions - diagnosed by …

also focus on improving the health of disadvantaged children …We use unique administrative German data to examine the role of childhood health for the intergenerational transmission … of human capital. Specifically, we examine the extent to which a comprehensive list of health conditions – diagnosed by …

also focus on improving the health of disadvantaged children …We use unique administrative German data to examine the role of childhood health for the intergenerational transmission … of human capital. Specifically, we examine the extent to which a comprehensive list of health conditions - diagnosed by …

well as academic achievement. Our data are taken from the Mannheim Study of Children at Risk, an epidemiological cohort …

Parents invest in their children's human capital in several ways. We investigate the extent to which the levels and …. We test the hypothesis of parentchild time as a form of human capital investment in children using a propensity score …

children. Using data for Germany, we find that an economic downturn, coupled with increased unemployment, affects children …'s education attainment negatively. In terms of monetary units, the average effect of the 1993 German recessionon children … conclusion is that children who live in regions that experience poor economic performance over longer periods are, on average …