Newborn health is an important component in the chain of intergenerational transmission of disadvantage. This paper … contributes to the literature on the determinants of health at birth in two ways. First, we analyze the role of maternal …

Newborn health is an important component in the chain of intergenerational transmission of disadvantage. This paper … contributes to the literature on the determinants of health at birth in two ways. First, we analyze the role of maternal …

outcomes. Using the health shock as an instrumental variable shows that the onset of a disability at age 25 causally reduces … model that includes unscheduled hospitalizations as a measure for unanticipated health shocks and estimate the model on data … from the British National Child Development Study (NCDS). We show that such health shocks increase the likelihood of an …

British children who were all potentially exposed in the womb. Epidemic effects are identified using geographic variation in a … at 7 and 11, but only for the offspring of mother's with certain health characteristics. By contrast, the impact of the … across maternal health and socioeconomic indicators. Taken together, our results point to multiple channels linking foetal …

Schooling is related to health and future labor market outcomes. The school parents choose for their children often … the school depends only on objective measures of the quality of the school. We examine the association between children … children’s schooling. The findings suggest that excellent academic performance of the child is associated with higher parental …

data from hospital administrative records between 2003 and 2012, babies' health is found to be strongly pro-cyclical. A one … 1.4%, and a 0.1% decrease in foetal growth. We find heterogenous responses: unemployment has an effect on babies' health … evidence of three channels that can explain the overall negative effect of unemployment on new-born health: maternal stress …

outcomes. Using the health shock as an instrumental variable shows that the onset of a disability at age 25 causally reduces … model that includes unscheduled hospitalizations as a measure for unanticipated health shocks and estimate the model on data … from the British National Child Development Study (NCDS). We show that such health shocks increase the likelihood of an …

data on individuals born in these two months from the British Labour Force Survey and the Health Survey for England to … investigate the effects of education on health using being February-born as an instrument for education. The results indicate … neither an effect of education on various health related measures nor an effect on health related behaviour, e.g., smoking …

We show that sugar-rich diet early in life has large adverse effects on the health and economic well-being of adults …

, relatively little research has addressed the role of CS on outcomes for the children concerned. There are good reasons for … thinking that CS could leverage better outcomes than other forms of income support and, using a sample of dependent children in …