We use a unique data set of linked birth records from Florida to analyze the intergenerational transmission of health … grandmother fixed effects. The significant role of both maternal and paternal health at birth in explaining offspring health at … at birth by parental gender. We show that both paternal and maternal birth weights significantly predict the child …

supply, but very little is known about how the minimum wage affects health, including children's health. We address this … health. Using data on the entire universe of births in the US over 25 years, we find that an increase in the minimum wage is … associated with an increase in birth weight driven by increased gestational length and fetal growth rate. The effect size is …