This paper estimates the causal effects of parental education on their children's risky health behaviours and health …. Instrumental variable estimates and difference-in-differences estimates reveal that increases in maternal schooling reduce children … children's education and improvements in their peer environment early in life are important for explaining the effects. Changes …

This paper presents evidence of substantial causal effects of parental education on children's health behaviours and …, which was implemented across federal states at different points in time. Maternal schooling reduces children's smoking and … overweight in adolescence. The effects persist into children's adulthood, reducing chronic conditions that often result from …

their children more closely, spend more time interacting with them, help much more with homework, and place more emphasis on …

We examine how absences respond to particle pollution in a multi-year individual panel comprising 6,500 children … Chinese, children who miss school the most, and a minority of children who depart within one year of arrival, but overall is …

outcomes of their children. Interventions that encourage the educational attainment of children from poorer families will …

outcomes of their children. Interventions that encourage the educational attainment of children from poorer families will …

development and socio-economic development gaps. For children born before January 1, 2007, parental leave benefits were means …-tested and paid for up to 24 months after childbirth. For children born thereafter, parental leave benefits were earnings … study the reform effects on children's language skills, motor skills, socio-emotional stability, and school readiness using …