"There are many possible pathways between parental education, income, and health, and between child health and … socioeconomic status (as measured by education, income, occupation, or in some cases area of residence) and child health, and … between child health and adult education or income. Specifically, I ask two questions: What is the evidence regarding whether …

particularly concerned with the extent to which their finding that income effects on child health are the result of spurious … approach. Our results suggest that the income effects observed in the data are spurious. -- child health ; intergenerational …This paper investigates the robustness of recent findings on the effect of parental background on child health. We are …

Research on the socioeconomic determinants of health is often based on parental assessments of their children?s health … turn results in systematic differences in the estimated magnitude and significance of the health-income gradient …. We assess this approach by comparing directly evaluations from parents, teachers, children and psychiatrists of three …

health. We are particularly concerned about spurious correlation arising from the potential endogeneity of parental income …This paper investigates the robustness of recent findings on the effect of parental education and income on child … and education. Using an instrumental variables approach, our results suggest that the parental income and education …

model that includes unscheduled hospitalizations as a measure for unanticipated health shocks and estimate the model on data … from the British National Child Development Study (NCDS). We show that such health shocks increase the likelihood of an … onset of a disability by around 138%. However, health shocks are relatively rare events and therefore the larger part of …

Research on intergenerational income mobility has shown stronger persistence between parental and offspring's income in … association between parental income and these outcomes, and the associations are stronger in the UK than in Sweden. Therefore, we … weight and height are too weak to account for hardly any fraction of the UK-Sweden difference in intergenerational income …

There are many possible pathways between parental education, income, and health, and between child health and education … status (as measured by education, income, occupation, or in some cases area of residence) and child health, and between child … health and adult education or income. Specifically, I ask two questions: What is the evidence regarding whether parental …