transfers to their own parents in order to instill appropriate preferences in their children. This generates a derived demand … for grandchildren since potential grandparents will be treated better by their adult children if the latter have their own … children to whom to demonstrate the appropriate behavior. Empirical work, based on waves 1 and 2 of the National Survey of …

We analyze the effects of children's health on human capital accumulation and on long-run economic growth. For this … want to have better educated children, they also raise health investments and vice versa; ii) parental health investments …

This paper provides novel evidence on differences in health outcomes of children in religious and non … does not affect children's height-for-age, but increases children's body mass index and subjective health. Father …'s religiosity has a stronger salutary effect than mother's religiosity. In fatherless families, children's health is more strongly …