education and to what extent those mitigate the long-run effects. We use individual records of Swedish birth cohorts from 1915 … direct biological mechanisms. We do not find evidence of indirect pathways through ability or education, and the long …-run effects are not mitigated by education. …

formation of health capital and the role played by genetic endowments, parental SES, and education. To measure genetic …, including early health, skills, and the parents' and child's own attitudes towards education, as well as outcomes related to … occupation and wealth. We also show that a strong association between education and health survives controlling for a large set …

outcomes. We ask whether birth order differences in health are present at birth using matched administrative data for more than … 1,000,000 children born in Denmark between 1981 and 2010. Using family fixed effects models, we find a positive and … robust birth order effect; lower parity children are less healthy at birth. Looking at the potential mechanisms, we find that …

affects her children's health, but is also intrinsically linked to her spouse's labor market status and earnings. Paternal … negative effects on their children are compounded. Additionally, the consequences of poor parental health are enduring. Longer …This paper investigates the economic returns to parental health. To account for potential endogeneity between parental …

This paper studies the effects of day care exposure on behavioral problems and mental health as well as on various … aspects of physical health, at various ages during childhood. We draw on a unique set of comprehensive individual-level out …-patient and inpatient health care register data from Sweden over the period 1999-2008 merged with other population register data …

We explore the effects of a child labor regulation that changed the legal working age from 14 to 16 over the health of … their offspring. We show that the reform was detrimental for the health of the son's of affected parents at delivery. Yet …, in the medium run, the effects of the reform are insignificant for both male and female children. The sons of treated …

This paper studies the effects of day care exposure on behavioral disorders and mental and physical health at various … effects on child health at different ages. We find a positive cumulative impact on behavior at primary school ages, in … particular for children from low socio-economic status households, and substitution of infections from primary school ages to low …

of a large daycare expansion in Germany on children's age-specific mental and physical health outcomes. Based on a unique …Over the past decades, the share of very young children in daycare has increased significantly in many OECD countries …, including Germany. Despite the relevance of child health for child development and later life success, the effect of early …

of a large daycare expansion in Germany on children's age-specific mental and physical health outcomes. Based on a unique …Over the past decades, the share of very young children in daycare has increased significantly in many OECD countries …, including Germany. Despite the relevance of child health for child development and later life success, the effect of early …

construction and household-level toilet subsidy programs in rural People's Republic of China (PRC) on children's education, health … significantly reduced maternal-child education persistence, while improving the upward education mobility of exposed children. Our … years after its implementation. Effects on education are larger for girls than for boys, and for toilet subsidy programs. On …