education on health. Second, we present evidence that parents compensate for differences in their children's health endowments … health and longevity in contrast to other twin-based studies of the US population, which show little or no effect of … towards detecting reinforcement both in this paper and in the literature. Our compensation result for health endowment holds …

education on health. Second, we present evidence that parents compensate for differences in their children's health endowments … health and longevity in contrast to other twin-based studies of the US population, which show little or no effect of …

, 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 …

This paper estimates the effect of economic shocks that affect families with young children on children's health … economy. Analyzing household survey data from Russia I find that children who were under the age of five and whose parents … were negatively affected during the early transition have poorer health in adolescence and are less likely to have …

This paper estimates the effect of economic shocks that affect families with young children on children's health … economy. Analyzing household survey data from Russia I find that children who were under the age of five and whose parents … were negatively affected during the early transition have poorer health in adolescence and are less likely to have …

We consider a case where some of the parents have higher ability to raise children than others. First-best policy gives … misrepresent their true ability by investing less in their children, and having a lower number of children. The second-best policy … induces more able parents to have the first-best number of children, and to invest in each child at the first-best level. Less …

range, with a focus on gender-specific parental responses to this negative shock. Using data from a nationally … representative survey in China, we find that fetal PM2.5 exposure significantly reduce cognitive ability in women, particularly those …

compulsory schooling from five to eight years, on the developmental outcomes of children aged 36 to 59 months. We draw upon data … from the 2018 Turkey Demographic and Health Survey, which features a comprehensive module on early childhood development … increase in maternal educational attainment and corresponding enhancements in children's readiness to learn. Exploring the …

Pregnancy loss is often a traumatic event which may impact both parents and subsequent children. Using Norwegian … investment and family outcomes. We find that pregnancy loss improves maternal health investments in the subsequent pregnancy … market attachment, it has limited effects on children born after the loss. This suggests that investment in the next …

Pregnancy loss is often a traumatic event which may impact both parents and subsequent children. Using Norwegian … investment and family outcomes. We find that pregnancy loss improves maternal health investments in the subsequent pregnancy … market attachment, it has limited effects on children born after the loss. This suggests that investment in the next …