In this study, we analyze health effects of a recent education reform in Germany exposing students to increased … schooling intensity. The reform shortened the higher secondary education track by one year. As the overall curriculum required … significantly reduced adolescents' self-rated mental health status. The overall effect on the mental component summary score (MCS …

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 …

This paper analyses the association between health outcomes of newborn children and mother's poverty status during … pregnancy. We use a new questionnaire accompanying the GSOEP which collects abundant information on health outcomes. The … findings indicate that there is generally no effect from poverty to health, except on the probability of preterm birth …

health and human capital formation for children. Children who experience a parental health shock are more likely to have …I show that serious, yet common, parental health shocks in childhood have immediate and lasting effects on mental … therapy and take anti-depressant medication following the shock. These children have lower test scores and school enrollment …

also focus on improving the health of disadvantaged children …We use unique administrative German data to examine the role of childhood health for the intergenerational transmission … of human capital. Specifically, we examine the extent to which a comprehensive list of health conditions - diagnosed by …

term development. Based on the German national health survey for children, we study the impact of daycare in pre …As the number of young children in daycare increases, people start to worry about the effect of early non-parental care …-kindergarten-age on weight problems and gross motor skills of children aged five to nine. This dataset has the advantage to provide …