This paper examines the long-term impacts on health and healthy behaviors of two of the oldest and most widely cited U … early life interventions for promoting health. …

This paper formulates and estimates multistage production functions for children's cognitive and noncognitive skills … investment in children compared to later remediation. We establish nonparametric identification of a general class of production … targeting of interventions to children with different parental and personal birth endowments. Substitutability decreases in …

This paper formulates and estimates multistage production functions for children's cognitive and noncognitive skills … investment in children compared to later remediation. We establish nonparametric identfication of a general class of production … targeting of interventions to children with different parental and personal birth endowments. Substitutability decreases in …

. The underlying causal mechanisms for such effects remain unsettled. We consider a model in which parents impose more … stringent disciplinary environments in response to their earlier-born children's poor performance in school in order to deter … such outcomes for their later-born offspring. We provide robust empirical evidence that school performance of children in …

explore the extent to which the health effects of job displacement extend to the children of displaced workers and also the …. -- children ; infant health ; job loss ; displacement … first to consider whether there are any harmful effects for children who are not yet born when the separation occurs. I use …

We estimate and decompose family income-related inequality in child health in the US and analyze its dynamics using the … income-related health mobility index recently introduced by Allanson et al., 2010. Data come from the 1997, 2002, and 2007 … income-related child health inequality remains stable from early childhood into adolescence. The main factor underlying …

variation in the test score convergence across states and racial convergence in measures of health and hospital access in the … earnings gaps match those in early life health and test scores already established. It also addresses caveats in the earlier …

variation in the test score convergence across states and racial convergence in measures of health and hospital access in the … earnings gaps match those in early life health and test scores already established. It also addresses caveats in the earlier …

and birth outcomes in forecasting child health (as indicated by height and weight), child behavioral problems, and a child …

reduced child support. These incentives have negative effects on children's human capital development and health, with … health and human capital measures. State laws vary widely in the treatment of child support under joint custody. While some … school and child health. Parental characteristics and time use data suggest that economic incentives for joint custody may …