for a sample of uncomplicated births from low educated mothers. We find that breastfeeding has large effects on children …We show that children who are born at the weekend or just before are less likely to be breastfed, owing to poorer … breastfeeding support services at weekends. We use this variation to estimate the effect of breastfeeding on children's development …

This study investigates the effects of maternal education on child's health and health behavior. We draw on a rich … effects on health behavior for adolescent daughters, but neither for adolescent sons nor for the health status of newborns. We …'s health behavior, assortative mating, household income, and child¿s schooling track as possible channels of the estimated …

This is the first study investigating the causal effect of maternal education on child's health and schooling outcomes … significant effects on schooling outcomes for both sexes. And, we find substantial effects on health behaviour for adolescent …

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 …

We analyze interaction effects of birth weight and the business cycle at birth on individual cardiovascular (CV … education and to what extent those mitigate the long-run effects. We use individual records of Swedish birth cohorts from 1915 …-1929 covering birth weight, family characteristics, school grades, sibling identifiers, and outcomes later in life including the …

the effects of air quality on children's health. The IV estimates show that the respiratory illness health care visit rate …. Importantly, by linking the health care data to detailed records of parental background characteristics, we show that children … outpatient records for the universe of children in Sweden during a six-year period to provide instrumental variable estimates of …

Despite plausible mechanisms, little research has evaluated potential changes in health behaviors as a result of the … health behaviors for pregnant women, which is a group of particular interest given evidence of the importance of prenatal … health to later life outcomes. We exploit exogenous variation from the Medicaid income eligibility expansions for pregnant …

We investigate restructuring of the health system in Brazil motivated to operationalize universal health coverage …