's cognitive skills, non-cognitive skills, and health. Our results show that greater parental education increases children …'s cognitive and non-cognitive skills, as well as their health. These results suggest that the effect of parents' education on … children's education may work partly through the positive effect that parental education has on children's skills and health. …

the impact of child health on education outcomes, but there are formidable obstacles to obtaining credible estimates. Data … sources of bias when attempting to estimate relationships between child health and education. This Chapter provides an … facts about child health and education in less developed countries. It then provides a framework for analyzing the impact of …

reside in urban areas and in large cities, and the returns to education are significantly higher in urban areas relative to … returns to education in urban areas are at least comparable to the magnitude of private returns. Rural areas are the major …. Relaxing the hukou restriction, increasing education levels of rural residents, providing training for rural-urban migrants …

of individuals surveyed in their early twenties. The inclusion of early life household wealth, parental education and … cognitive outcomes in young adult life. Additionally, we find that both early life cognitive ability and health seem to have … cohort members according to their height, which we consider a proxy for health status - shorter individuals show a stronger …

We present a theory of human capital, with its two most essential components, health capital and, what we term, skill … an important economic mechanism driving human-capital formation, socio-economic and health disparities, human …-capital based economic growth, and causal relations among the stocks of wealth, skill and health, namely whether individuals can …

sugar exposure. We find t hat p renatal e xposure t o d erationing increases education and reduces BMI and sugar consumption …