breastfeeding on children’s cognitive development but no effects on health or non-cognitive development during the period of …We show that children who are born at or just before the weekend are less likely to be breastfed, owing to poorer … breastfeeding support services in hospitals at weekends. We use this variation to estimate the effect of breastfeeding on children …

intergenerational mobility if parents at the bottom of the income distribution invest significantly less in their children’s human … capital. I consider whether public investments in children can potentially offset the inequality of private investments … period 2000–2009, I find that increases in spending on health are most strongly associated with reductions in the importance …

Understanding of the substantial disparity in health between low and high socioeconomic status (SES) groups is hampered … disparities in health by SES. In our model, lifestyle factors, working conditions, retirement, living conditions and curative care … are mechanisms through which SES, health and mortality are related. Our model predicts a widening and possibly a …