Prior empirical research on the theoretically proposed interaction between the quantity and the quality of children …, extend the empirical approach in two ways. First, we add health as an additional outcome di- mension. Second, we apply a semi …

Prior empirical research on the theoretically proposed interaction between the quantity and the quality of children …, extend the empirical approach in two ways. First, we add health as an additional outcome dimension. Second, we apply a semi …

Prior empirical research on the theoretically proposed interaction between the quantity and the quality of children …, extend the empirical approach in two ways. First, we add health as an additional outcome dimension. Second, we apply a semi …

Prior empirical research on the theoretically proposed interaction between the quantity and the quality of children …, extend the empirical approach in two ways. First, we add health as an additional outcome dimension. Second, we apply a semi …

-effects. Analysis of National Health Survey data shows that fertility-age women engage in healthier behaviors during recessions (in …We study the effect of the cycle on the health of newborn babies using 30 years of birth-certificate data for Spain. We … find that babies are born healthier when the local unemployment rate is high. Although fertility is lower during recessions …

Early life shocks result in physiological changes that allow infants and children to adapt to surrounding environments … educational attainment if children are later re-exposed. Our findings highlight the importance of capturing the critical tradeoffs …

In this paper I unify the economic theories of addiction and health deficit accumulation and develop a life cycle … theory in which individuals take into account the fact that the consumption of addictive goods reduces their health and …

This paper accounts for the value of children and future generations in the evaluation of health policies. This is … achieved through the incorporation of altruism and fertility in a "value of life" type of framework. We are able to express … intergenerational welfare comparisons. We show that, by incorporating altruism and fertility into the analysis, the estimated welfare …

making of a couple into a biologically founded life-cycle model of health deficit accumulation and endogenous longevity. We …