This paper estimates the determinants of child mortality and child health allowing for the possibility that samples of … children are choice-based, reflecting prior selective fertility and mortality behavior. Parameter identification is the most … random-effects structure on the error correlation matrix for the set of fertility, mortality and health behaviors. Fertility …

beneficial impacts on health, children's future labor incomes, crime, education, and mothers' labor incomes, with greater …

explain the connection. The health behaviour of the children and the health accumulated over the life course appear as … Socio-Economic Panel Study and survival analysis models, we show that maternal education is related to children's life … expectancy - even after controlling for children's own level of education. This applies equally to daughters and sons as well as …

link. Children's health behaviour and the health accumulated over the life course appear as important channels. The … the German Socio-Economic Panel Study and survival analysis models, we show that maternal education is related to children …'s life expectancy - even after controlling for children's own level of education. This applies equally to women and men as …

We use administrative data from South Australia to study the impact of an unconditional cash transfer on child health … suggest that households spent the windfall income on electricity and private health insurance. There is no robust evidence …

beneficial impacts on health, children's future labor incomes, crime, education, and mothers' labor in- comes, with greater …

beneficial impacts on health, children's future labor incomes, crime, education, and mothers' labor incomes, with greater …

early health shocks for children. We estimate a human capital production function and establish that, for this sample, early …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 …

early health shocks for children.We estimate a human capital production function and establish that, for this sample, early …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 …

-term outcomes, including lifetime income, health, cognitive skills, and education. Our results show that the school lunch program … attainment and health and these effects can explain a large part of the return to school lunches. …