rich individual data from hospital administrative records between 2003 and 2012, babies' health is found to be strongly pro …-cyclical. We find heterogenous responses: unemployment has an effect on babies' health which varies from strongly adverse for the … which can explain both the overall and heterogenous findings: maternal stress, health behaviour, and prenatal care. We also …

data from hospital administrative records between 2003 and 2012, babies' health is found to be strongly pro-cyclical. A one … 1.4%, and a 0.1% decrease in foetal growth. We find heterogenous responses: unemployment has an effect on babies' health … evidence of three channels that can explain the overall negative effect of unemployment on new-born health: maternal stress …

This study investigates the effects of maternal education on child's health and health behavior. We draw on a rich … German panel data set containing information about three generations. This allows instrumenting maternal education by the … effects on health behavior for adolescent daughters, but neither for adolescent sons nor for the health status of newborns. We …

This paper analyzes the relationship between education and health outcomes using a natural experiment in Turkey. The … substantially increased education in Turkey. Using the number of new middle school class openings per 1000 children as an intensity … attainment to investigate the impact of education on body mass index, obesity, smoking behavior, and self-rated health, as well …

This paper analyzes the relationship between education and health outcomes using a natural experiment in Turkey. The … substantially increased education in Turkey. Using the number of new middle school class openings per 1000 children as an intensity … attainment to investigate the impact of education on body mass index, obesity, smoking behavior, and self-rated health, as well …

(SES) can also improve the well-being of their children. This chapter identifies several channels for this effect, drawing … like health, education, and labor market success is presented, with a focus on recent work using new data sets and … maternal well-being can affect not only a woman's own children, but future generations as well. Finally, the chapter highlights …

Based on the sample of The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health), we investigate the … formation of health capital and the role played by genetic endowments, parental SES, and education. To measure genetic … health and health behaviors for subjects with high parental socioeconomic status (SES). These effects are only partially …

childcare availability leads to mothers worrying more about their children's health. While early childcare expansions offer well … percentage point increase in the availability of childcare decreases mothers' self-assessed health by 0.173 points on a one to … is the transmission of infections from children to mothers. Consistent with this hypothesis, we observe that increased …

Sweden was early to legalize same-sex partnership (1995), to allow same-sex couples to adopt children (2003), and to … offer same-sex couples fertility treatment through the national health system (2005). Using population data, we identify … children of lesbian parents as those whose biological mother was a registered same-sex partner no later than six months after …

have devastating effects not only on the individual but the entire household, including children. If a parental health … with consequences on their adult health. Using a detailed longitudinal dataset of Danish children born in the period 1987 …-2000, this paper studies how a severe parental health shock affects children's school achievements. We use coarsened exact …