approach that exploits regional variation in unemployment and compares babies born to the same parents so as to deal with … cannot be attributed to the parents' own employment status. The results suggest pathways through stress and air pollution. …-percentage-point increase in the unemployment rate during pregnancy reduces the probability of having a birth weight less than 1,500 grams or of …

parental unemployment on children's weight before, during and after a recession. Child growth charts are used to quantify …The incidence of adiposity in the early years of life has outgrown the prevalence rate in older children and … adolescents globally; however, the relationships between unemployment and weight are predominantly studied in adults. This study …

information on their children's school performance, for a sample of over 300 students. Using individual fixed effects, the … loss. These results are mainly driven by those students whose fathers suffer long unemployment spells. In contrast, the …

This paper examines age- and gender-specific employment sensitivity to growth across different economic sectors. By …-, gender-, and sector-specific employment intensities to growth. Our study examines the ability of growth in different sectors … to generate total employment opportunities. Results show that regardless of gender or age, the employment growth is …

they joined the establishment from unemployment This is supportive of equal treatment. We also show that a four parameter … series properties and co-properties of real wages, output, and unemployment, in particular the asymmetric response of wages …