While there is a growing literature on family health spillovers, questions remain about how sibling disability status …, sibling spacing and family size). We find that having a disabled sibling significantly decreases 9th grade exit exam GPAs …

entirely to that of their East German colleagues. West German return migrants continue to be influenced by the more gender …

. Social effects are modeled as gender roles that constrain potential partners away from the efficient allocation of household … ISSP), which contains information on attitudes toward gender roles and the allocation of time to household production. The … time and cross-country variation in the data, as well as individual reported attitudes toward gender roles, allow for the …

I study the impact of a universal child benefit on fertility and family well-being. I exploit the unanticipated … results suggest that child benefits of this kind may successfully increase fertility, as well as affecting family well …-being through their impact on maternal time at home and family stability …

I study the impact of a universal child benefit on fertility and family well-being. I exploit the unanticipated … results suggest that child benefits of this kind may successfully increase fertility, as well as affecting family well …-being through their impact on maternal time at home and family stability. -- child benefit ; policy evaluation ; fertility …

This chapter reviews the existing empirical evidence on how social insurance affects health. Social insurance … encompasses programs primarily designed to insure against health risks, such as health insurance, sick leave insurance, accident …. Surprisingly, evidence on how changes in coverage impact beneficiaries' health is scant and inconclusive. This lack of identified …

a smaller gender wage gap as male-female lifetime work expectations become more similar. The model explains why relative …

family-friendly policies. …

This paper investigates the returns to education in terms of individuals' health in Brazil. We use the Heckman … microdata from National Survey by Household Sample for 2003 and 2008. The health status is measured by self-assessment of … is lower for individuals in poor health; for people with 15 or more years of schooling, the rate of return is 10 …