their mother and there is an increase in odds of mortality. The analysis by level of development reveals the cost of … fertility comes from those countries with lower level of development. …

. Ultimately, the effects on longer-run outcomes (subjective health, wellbeing, education) are grave and similar for both genders. …We exploit a large exogenous shock to study socioemotional development (SED) during adolescence and the consequences on …

countries. This development may have far-reaching consequences for the family, challenging traditional patterns of union … education on family formation through changes in the marriage market. My empirical strategy exploits the gradual implementation … of a large school reform in Finland that increased women's relative level of education. I analyze the reduced …

This paper investigates the economic returns to parental health. To account for potential endogeneity between parental … health and child outcomes, we leverage longitudinal microdata from Indonesia to estimate individual fixed effects models. Our … results show that the economic returns to parental health are high. We show that maternal health not only significantly …

earning jobs they are shown as helpers. Parents' income as such may not be having a positive impact on child's education … continue her/his education. To substantiate the gender bias, the probability of falling ill among the girl children is found to …

Poor health may constrain women's capacity for active leisure, including family life and childrearing, for … participation in the labor market and potentially affect preferences. Still, health remains remarkably understudied as a fertility … determinant. We explore the association between health and fertility, using uptake of doctor-certified sickness absences and long …

We assess quantitatively the effect of exogenous health improvements on output per capita. Our simulation model allows … for a direct effect of health on worker productivity, as well as indirect effects that run through schooling, the size and … developing countries, and standard components of quantitative macroeconomic theory. We consider both changes in general health …

the 2007 fee exemption policy as a natural experiment. In an era where UHC and health equity are at the center of the post … 2015 development agenda, our findings highlight any potential added-value from providing age specific family planning …

We revisit the cyclical nature of birth rates and infant health and investigate to what extent the relationship between … provide novel evidence that infant health is countercyclical based on timing of conception, but procyclical based on time in … utero. The negative relationship between the in utero aggregate unemployment rate and infant health also disappears when …

growth and contribute to the debate surroundingrising health shares and economic development. … health investments. As a novelty, we are able to examine the feedback effects between life expectancy and R&D-driven economic … higherlabor force participation; ii) longevity-induced reductions in fertility hampereconomic development; iii) the positive life …