migrant access to local health and education system a large cohort of migrant children are left-behind in rural villages and … growing up without parental care. This paper examines how parental migration affects children's health and education outcomes …. Using the Rural-Urban Migration Survey in China (RUMiC) data we are able to measure the share of children's lifetime during …

maternal age has an overall detrimental effect on offspring health and cognition. We show that children born to early mothers … early motherhood for the mother have been extensively investigated, the impact on their children is severely understudied … investigates the effect of early maternal age on offspring human capital development in terms of health and cognition, and relies …

This paper investigates the impact of parental education on child health outcomes. To identify the causal effect we … leaving age by one year had little effect on the health of their offspring. Schooling did however improve economic … child health are at most modest. …

This Element reviews what we know about parental investments and children's human capital in low …-to-middle-income countries (LMICs). First, it presents definitions and a simple analytical framework; then discusses determinants of children …'s human capital in the form of cognitive skills, socioemotional skills and physical and mental health; then reviews estimates …

, including early health, skills, and the parents' and child's own attitudes towards education, as well as outcomes related to …Based on the sample of The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health), we investigate the … formation of health capital and the role played by genetic endowments, parental SES, and education. To measure genetic …