families in rural China. This paper asks how participation is affected by elder parent health. We find that younger adults are … less likely to work as migrants when a parent is ill. Poor elder parent health has less impact on the probability of …

This paper investigates the sensitivity of the intergenerational transmission of health to changes in the socioeconomic … and public health environment into which children are born using individual survey data on 2.24 million children born to … data. We find that children are more likely to bear the penalty exerted by poor maternal health if they are conceived or …

childhood health shocks on the cognitive abilities of the children of parents born during the famine. We find that daughters …

adult antiretroviral therapy (ART) has on the health of such children. Using a triple difference specification, we find that …

-scores). Using the experience of the Kashmir insurgency, I find that stress during pregnancy and the limited access to health … link between children's health at birth, mother's health during pregnancy, and children's height in the context of negative … differences are small. Finally, a robust finding in the health literature is that shorter children perform worse in schools, in …