This paper investigates the sensitivity of the intergenerational transmission of health to exogenous changes in income …, education and public health, changes that are often delivered by economic growth. It uses individual survey data on 2.24 million … maternal and child health as well as in aggregate economic conditions. The country-level panel is exploited to control for …

This paper investigates the sensitivity of the intergenerational transmission of health to exogenous changes in income …, education and public health, changes that are often delivered by economic growth. It uses individual survey data on 2.24 million … maternal and child health as well as in aggregate economic conditions. The country-level panel is exploited to control for …

supporting such a causal relationship − particularly on child health − is limited. We use two measures of child health to asses …

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

-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 …

health as well as recently developed nonparametric tests for stochastic dominance to assess whether the quantity … size are only possible if one accounts for ‘dispersion’ in child health. Moreover, the magnitude of the trade-off is not …