This paper investigates the economic returns to parental health. To account for potential endogeneity between parental … health and child outcomes, we leverage longitudinal microdata from Indonesia to estimate individual fixed effects models. Our … results show that the economic returns to parental health are high. We show that maternal health not only significantly …

identified gender inequality as a common predictor for such child health deprivations. At household level, studies support this … finding by showing that maternal education improves children's health outcomes. Yet authors disagree on whether education … fathers' education; thus, the gender perspective is incomplete. Therefore, this paper investigates how and through which …

An open question in the literature is whether families compensate or reinforce the impact of child health shocks … negative early health shocks at ages 0-3, the other twin sibling who did suffer negative health shocks received RMB 305 more in … terms of health investments, but received RMB 182 less in terms of educational investments in the 12 months prior to the …