Despite a recent growth in studies examining the association between family income and child health, very few studies … effect of family income on child health in the UK. Using rich observational data from a British cohort study, we exploit … income on subjective child health and control for potential transmission channels through which income could affect child …

This paper investigates the robustness of recent findings on the effect of parental background on child health. We are … particularly concerned with the extent to which their finding that income effects on child health are the result of spurious … and child health are correlated with some common unobservable (say, low parental time preference) then least squares …

health. We are particularly concerned about spurious correlation arising from the potential endogeneity of parental income …