outcomes. Using the health shock as an instrumental variable shows that the onset of a disability at age 25 causally reduces … 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 …

This paper investigates the robustness of recent findings on the effect of parental background on child health. We are … particularly concerned with the extent to which their finding that income effects on child health are the result of spurious … and child health are correlated with some common unobservable (say, low parental time preference) then least squares …

health. We are particularly concerned about spurious correlation arising from the potential endogeneity of parental income …

The influence of maternal health problems on child's worrying status is important in practice in terms of the … intervention of maternal health problems early for the influence on child's worrying status. Conventional methods apply symmetric … data model without heterogeneity from a Bayesian point of view, and examines the influence of maternal health problems on …