, including Germany. Despite the relevance of child health for child development and later life success, the effect of early … daycare attendance on health has received little attention in the economic literature. In this study, I investigate the impact … of a large daycare expansion in Germany on children’s age-specific mental and physical health outcomes. Based on a unique …

the Western Netherlands. We link high-quality military recruits data with objective health measurements for the cohorts …

have poorer health once they reach the adulthood. We used data from the German Socio-Economic Panel from 2002 until 2018 … interpretation of the estimates. On the one hand, we found a nil effect for parental unemployment on mental health. On the other hand …, we detected a negative effect on physical health. The latter is stronger if parental unemployment occurred in early …

recent studies have suggested, parents favor healthier children. Children with poor health are found to receive fewer …-family regression models, using low birth weight as a proxy for child health, find no evidence that parents compensate for or reinforce … child health endowments. Instead, birth-weight disparities in parental investment are linked with observable family …