, in the medium run, the effects of the reform are insignificant for both male and female children. The sons of treated … mothers are perceived as still having worse health at older ages, even if their objective health status has recovered. These … boys are also more likely to have private health insurance, which suggests more concerned mothers. …

phases of childhood and early adolescence. Our results indicate that children born to early mothers are shorter for their age … and perform poorer in the math test, with stronger effects for (female) offspring born to very young mothers …

maternal age has an overall detrimental effect on offspring health and cognition. We show that children born to early mothers … effects suggests that children and in particular girls born to very young mothers are worst off. The transmission channel … policies assisting children born to early mothers and preventive policies tackling early pregnancy. …

maternal age has an overall detrimental effect on offspring health and cognition. We show that children born to early mothers … effects suggests that children and in particular girls born to very young mothers are worst off. The transmission channel … policies assisting children born to early mothers and preventive policies tackling early pregnancy. …

inadequately protected, supervised or directed by responsible adults’’. Children whose parents are deceased or otherwise unable or … unwilling to care for them may become street children. Parents, and sometimes grandparents, are legally responsible for … supporting children, but in the absence of these or other relatives willing to care for the children, they become children of …

Sweden was early to legalize same-sex partnership (1995), to allow same-sex couples to adopt children (2003), and to … children of lesbian parents as those whose biological mother was a registered same-sex partner no later than six months after … the child's birth. The number of such children increased markedly from 1995 to 2010 with a total of 750 children for the …

We investigate the spillover effects of early-life medical treatments on the siblings of treated children. We use a … administrative data from Denmark, we first confirm the findings in the previous literature that children who are slightly below the … spillovers on all our measures of academic achievement.Our estimates suggest that siblings of focal children who were slightly …