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Is there an income gradient in child health? It depends whom you ask
Johnston, David W.; Propper, Carol; Pudney, Stephen E.; … - 2010
determinants of health. If how parents perceive health questions differs by income or education level, then estimates of the … the different reports for the estimated income gradient. We find that respondents frequently evaluate children differently … and while the sign of the income gradient is in the same direction across respondents, systematic differences in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269821
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Is there an income gradient in child health? It depends whom you ask
Johnston, David W.; Propper, Carol; Pudney, Stephen E.; … - 2010
turn results in systematic differences in the estimated magnitude and significance of the health-income gradient …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288964
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Wealth, health, and child development : evidence from administrative data on Swedish lottery players
Cesarini, David; Lindqvist, Erik; Östling, Robert; … - 2015
) wealth and health or (ii) parental income and children's outcomes do not reflect a causal effect of wealth. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010494786
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Does mother know best? Parental discrepancies in assessing child functioning
Gupta, Nabanita Datta; Lausten, Mette; Pozzoli, Dario - 2012
We investigate the degree of correspondence between parents' reports on child behavioral and educational outcomes using the most recent available wave of a rich Danish longitudinal survey of children (the DALSC). All outcomes are measured at age 11 when the children are expected to be in fifth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289872
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The Intergenerational Transmission of Health in Early Childhood
Coneus, Katja; Spieß, Christa Katharina - 2008
, controlling for parental income, education and family composition, that parents who experience poor health have children with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298650
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Parental income and child health in Germany
Reinhold, Steffen; Jürges, Hendrik - 2009
We use newly available data from Germany to study the relationship between parental income and child health. We find a … strong gradient between parental income and subjective child health as has been documented earlier in the US, Canada and the … results, we do not find that the disadvantages associated with low parental income accumulate as the child ages, nor that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271103
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Wars and child health: Evidence from the Eritrean-Ethiopian conflict
Akresh, Richard; Lucchetti, Leonardo; Thirumurthy, Harsha - 2011
This is the first paper using household survey data from two countries involved in an international war (Eritrea and Ethiopia) to measure the conflict's impact on children's health in both nations. The identification strategy uses event data to exploit exogenous variation in the conflict's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278717
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The effects of children's ADHD on parents' relationship dissolution and labor supply
Kvist, Anette Primdal; Nielsen, Helena Skyt; Simonsen, … - 2011
This paper uses Danish register-based data for the population of children born in 1990-1997 to investigate the effects on parents of having a child with attention-deficit/hyperactivity-disorder (ADHD). Ten years after birth, parents of children diagnosed with ADHD have a 75% higher probability...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282421
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Communication problems? : the role of parent-child communication for the subsequent health behavior of adolescents
Avdic, Daniel; Büyükdurmus, Tugba - 2015
We contribute to the literature on the determinants of socioeconomic health disparities by studying how the health behavior of adolescents may arise from the degree of communication between parent and child. Parent-child communication may function as a mediator between family background and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010519179
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Birth order and health of newborns : what can we learn from Danish registry data?
Brenøe, Anne Ardila; Molitor, Ramona - 2015
Research has shown a strong negative correlation between birth order and cognitive test scores, IQ, and educational outcomes. We ask whether birth order differences in health are present at birth using matched administrative data for more than 1,000,000 children born in Denmark between 1981 and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011347302