This paper presents evidence that generalized trust promotes health. Children of immigrants in a broad set of European … trust in explaining self-assessed health. The finding is robust to accounting for individual, parental, and extensive … ancestral country characteristics. Individuals with higher ancestral trust are also less likely to be hampered by health …

care facilities. The regulation may reduce children's consumption of sugary beverages in the short run and weaken their … regulation by providing sugary drinks at home. Using detailed scanner data of grocery purchases, we find that affected California … households increased their juice purchases right after the regulation became effective. However, this increase disappears after …

child health outcomes, including cancer, learning disabilities, behavioral problems, developmental effects, low birth weight …, and birth defects. The economic and societal costs associated with children’s environmental health disorders were …’s environmental health issues are some of the barriers that impede effective policy decision making. To improve children …

This paper examines the impact of outdoor and indoor pollution on children's health from birth until the age of three …. Secondly, we are able to follow the effect of pollution exposure on a child's health during the first three years of life … significantly negative impact for some pollutants on infant health during early childhood. In comparison to outdoor pollution …

child health can provide an important explanation for disparities in children's human capital development across different …-cognitive skills. We analyze data from economic experiments with preschoolers and their mothers to investigate whether child health can … willingness to compete with others. Our findings suggest that health problems arenegatively related to children's willingness to …