understandinghow these shocks can affect the educational attainment, adult health, and adult income of the children who lived through … to either a polio outbreak, or to introduction of the vaccine against the disease, had long-term impacts on adult income …, education, or health. Through the study of the case of polio, this thesis contributes to our understanding of scarring effects …

half decades (1990-2014). We considered three main pillars of welfare - health, income & consumption, education - and we …

variation in the effects of highest education of parents on family’s ability to scale poverty, defined as the household’s income … household was associated with lower risk of poverty. Race, however, interacted with parental education attainment on household-income … encompasses residential segregation, low quality of education, low paying jobs, discrimination in the labor market, and extra …

maternal health by (relative) height. We find that improvements in maternal education, income and public health provision that …This paper investigates the sensitivity of the intergenerational transmission of health to exogenous changes in income …, education and public health, changes that are often delivered by economic growth. It uses individual survey data on 2.24 million …

by testing if more satisfied people live longer. Our results clearly confirm the importance of income, education and … marriage as important factors in determining longevity. For example, a one-log point increase in real household monthly income …