recent work shows positive selection of women into twin birth. Thus, while OLS estimates will tend to be downward biased … impacts on women's labour supply, or on investments in children. Using data for developing countries and the United States, we …

discontinuity design to compare the health at birth of the children of women born in January versus the previous December, using …We study the effects of school starting age on siblings' infant health. In Spain, children born in December start … children of December-born mothers, the children of January-born mothers are more likely to have very low birthweight. We then …

This is the first study investigating the causal effect of maternal education on child's health and schooling outcomes … significant effects on schooling outcomes for both sexes. And, we find substantial effects on health behaviour for adolescent …

This study investigates the effects of maternal education on child's health and health behavior. We draw on a rich … effects on health behavior for adolescent daughters, but neither for adolescent sons nor for the health status of newborns. We …'s health behavior, assortative mating, household income, and child¿s schooling track as possible channels of the estimated …