Self-productivity is a crucial feature in the process of skill formation. It means that skills and health acquired at … one stage in the life cycle enhance skills and health formation at later stages. This paper presents an empirical … over time. A one percent increase in birth weight increase child's noncognitive skills by 0.34 percent and child's health …

Self-productivity is a crucial feature in the process of skill formation. It means that skills and health acquired at … one stage in the life cycle enhance skills and health formation at later stages. This paper presents an empirical … over time. A one percent increase in birth weight increase child's noncognitive skills by 0.34 percent and child's health …

This paper examines the impact of outdoor and indoor pollution on children's health from birth until the age of three …. Secondly, we are able to follow the effect of pollution exposure on a child's health during the first three years of life … significantly negative impact for some pollutants on infant health during early childhood. In comparison to outdoor pollution …

In this paper, we examine how parental health affects children's development of personality traits and problem behavior …. Based on a German mother-and-child data base, we draw on observed parental health shocks as a more exogenous source of … health variation to identify these effects and control for child and family characteristics including variables reflecting …

health than non-owners. This paper presents longitudinal evidence from a major national representative longitudinal survey …: the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). Because the data are longitudinal, it is possible to assess the impact on health … unexpected finding was that all health benefits appear to accrue to homeowners only. The main result, then, is that homeowners …

While it seems evident that occupations affect health, effect estimates are scarce. We use a job characteristics matrix …. Employing a dynamic model to control for factors that simultaneously affect health and selection into occupation, we find that … manual work and low job control both have a substantial negative effect on health that increases with age. The effects of …

and preferred hours, the so-called work hours constraints? How does this affect the productivity of workers, their health …

Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we investigated the role of childbearing history in later life health … better self-rated health in Western German mothers and fathers aged 50+, but its relationship with Eastern German women …'s physical health and survival is negative. Early motherhood is paralleled by poorer physical health in West Germany, whereas …

This paper examines the impact of outdoor and indoor pollution on children's health from birth until the age of three …. Secondly, we are able to follow the effect of pollution exposure on a child's health during the first three years of life … significantly negative impact for some pollutants on infant health during early childhood. In comparison to outdoor pollution …