, university attendance, IQ and health? A structural model decomposes household shocks into permanent and transitory components …, then the effect of shocks at age 1-16 is estimated for 600,000 Norwegian children. The effect of permanent shocks declines …

early investments in their children's achievement, and thus that the timing of income does not matter for long-term child …

schooling progress, the expected college enrollment, grades in school and the assessed health of all children in the family. We …In this paper we use a new data set describing households with and without twin children in China to quantify the trade …-off between the quality and quantity of children using the incidence of twins that for the first time takes into account effects …

We estimate production functions for cognition and health for children aged 1-12 in India, where over 70 million … children aged 0-5 are at risk of developmental deficits. The inputs into the production functions include parental background …, prior child cognition and health, and child investments. We use income and local prices to control for the endogeneity of …

We estimate production functions for cognition and health for children aged 1-12 in India, where over 70 million … children aged 0-5 are at risk of developmental deficits. The inputs into the production functions include parental background …, prior child cognition and health, and child investments. We use income and local prices to control for the endogeneity of …

We estimate production functions for cognition and health for children aged 1-12 in India, based on the Young Lives … affect cognitive development at all ages, but more so for younger children. Investments also have an impact on health at … Survey. India has over 70 million children aged 0-5 who are at risk of developmental deficits. The inputs into the production …

How do parental resources early in life affect children's health and schooling outcomes? We address this question by … how additional parental time and monetary resources impacts both the existing and new child's educational and health …. The effects are prevalent primarily among children to high-income mothers. Impacts are driven by a combination of a …

Although the theoretical trade-off between the quantity and quality of children is well-established, empirical evidence … supporting such a causal relationship - particularly on child health - is limited. We use two measures of child health to asses …

find that children's capabilities strongly interact and build on each other: health is an important determinant of early …This paper analyzes the developmental origins and the evolution of health, cognitive, and socio-emotional skills during … early childhood, from age 0 to 5. We explicitly model the dynamic interactions of health with the child's behavior and …