education and to what extent those mitigate the long-run effects. We use individual records of Swedish birth cohorts from 1915 …. This is not explained by differential fertility by social class over the cycle. Ability itself, as measured at age 10 … direct biological mechanisms. We do not find evidence of indirect pathways through ability or education, and the long …

education and to what extent those mitigate the long-run effects. We use individual records of Swedish birth cohorts from 1915 …. This is not explained by differential fertility by social class over the cycle. Ability itself, as measured at age 10 … direct biological mechanisms. We do not find evidence of indirect pathways through ability or education, and the long …

daughters' fertility. To account for the endogeneity of parental death, we exploit the timing of deaths in a difference …-in-differences research design. Parental death has no statistically significant effect on daughters' fertility, even in situations where the … loss of informal childcare should be particularly pronounced. The absence of a fertility effect is strengthened by an …

literature, which focused on inefficient health behavior of the less educated, we investigate the extent to which the education … delayed through health expenditure. Individuals are heterogeneous with respect to their return to education. The proposed …This study presents a new view on the association between education and longevity. In contrast to the earlier …

the first period to the next depends upon health capital that can be augmented through public investment. High mortality … mortality also reduces returns on investments, like education, where risks are undiversifiable. When human capital drives … economic growth, countries differing in only health capital do not converge to similar living standards; 'threshold effects …

waves of the Survey of Health, Aging, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) dataset and construct a health deficit index. Results … from log-linear regressions suggest that, on average, elderly European men and women developed about 20 percent more health … suggesting that health deficits in old age are up to 40 percent higher for children suffering from hunger. The wedge of health …

educational and fertility outcomes in Indonesia. Using panel data and a sibling fixed effects model, we identify this relationship … persistence of adverse childhood experiences as surviving brothers have lower education attainment. In contrast, there is no … the full impact of health interventions may not be visible until decades afterwards …

Much of Africa has yet to go through a demographic transition; this Malthusian crisis of high mortality, high fertility …, mostly since econometric estimation is complicated by the endogeneity of fertility to other variables of interest. We attempt … to improve estimation of the effect of the child mortality variable on fertility by deploying exogenous variation in the …

What are the effects of childhood immunization program (UIP) on women's fertility and birth spacing? I examine the … effect of this immunization program on women's subsequent fertility and birth spacing by exploiting district … reduces the likelihood of subsequent and cumulative fertility of women and increases the birth intervals between first and …