While much is now known about the effects of physical health shocks to pregnant women on the outcomes of the in … two children with the same mother but where a parent of the mother died during one of the pregnancies--augmented with a …

While much is now known about the effects of physical health shocks to pregnant women on the outcomes of the in … two children with the same mother but where a parent of the mother died during one of the pregnancies — augmented with a …

This paper estimates the determinants of child mortality and child health allowing for the possibility that samples of … children are choice-based, reflecting prior selective fertility and mortality behavior. Parameter identification is the most … random-effects structure on the error correlation matrix for the set of fertility, mortality and health behaviors. Fertility …

health outcomes after age fifty. Having lived in a children s home, in a foster family, or having suffered a period of hunger …In this paper we address the long-run effects of childhood shocks on health in late adulthood. Applying a life … and later health into a-priori unknown groups, we show that some adverse shocks have opposite effects for specific groups. …