levels and smoking behaviours across generations. Higher parental education reduces the likelihood of children's low birth … weight, although the effect appears to be mainly driven by fathers. While maternal smoking during pregnancy increases the … three generations (grandparents-parents-children) to explore the effects of parental education and different parental …

health. We further provide suggestive evidence that improved maternal health-related knowledge and behaviors during pregnancy …

provide suggestive evidence that improved maternal health-related knowledge and behaviors during pregnancy are plausible …

aims at analyzing parental time discounting and its role in the intergenerational transmission of smoking. The analysis is … preference for both, mothers and fathers. That is, an increasing level of patience of parents is associated with a lower smoking … influence of health-related mediating factors such as parental smoking and alcohol consumption. It turns out that role modeling …

, which was implemented across federal states at different points in time. Maternal schooling reduces children's smoking and …This paper presents evidence of substantial causal effects of parental education on children's health behaviours and … overweight in adolescence. The effects persist into children's adulthood, reducing chronic conditions that often result from …

This paper estimates the causal effects of parental education on their children's risky health behaviours and health …. Instrumental variable estimates and difference-in-differences estimates reveal that increases in maternal schooling reduce children … children's education and improvements in their peer environment early in life are important for explaining the effects. Changes …

the higher incidence of smoking among children. Economic upheaval alone is unlikely to explain the remainder of the … there are also long-term intergenerational health effects through their effects on health behavior of children born during … difficult economic times. Based on a theoretical model of parental socialization against smoking, and using data from the German …

health. We further provide suggestive evidence that improved maternal health-related knowledge and behaviors during pregnancy …

The incidence of adiposity in the early years of life has outgrown the prevalence rate in older children and … adolescents globally; however, the relationships between unemployment and weight are predominantly studied in adults. This study … parental unemployment on children's weight before, during and after a recession. Child growth charts are used to quantify …