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 …

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 …

three-year-old children as well as the socio-emotional behavior of five- to six-year-old children. We use data from the … mothers' personality or mothers' cognitive skills are controlled for. …

This paper analyzes the influence of children's health and mothers' physical and mental wellbeing on female labor force … us to measure children's health based on the occurrence of severe health problems including mental and physical … working hours, but that hospitalizations or preterm births have no significant effect. For the mothers' own health, we find a …

Gesundheit der Neugeborenen erachtet, die über den Indikator Frühgeburt bestimmt werden kann. Die vorliegende Analyse eines …