of retirement after their husbands experience a work-limiting health shock. Results suggest that this increased …This paper uses data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe to analyze the effect of spousal health … the effect spousal health shocks have on the various labor market outcomes examined here, which suggests an important role …

migrant access to local health and education system a large cohort of migrant children are left-behind in rural villages and … growing up without parental care. This paper examines how parental migration affects children's health and education outcomes …. Using the Rural-Urban Migration Survey in China (RUMiC) data we are able to measure the share of children's lifetime during …

This paper investigates whether the health of children affects the likelihood that their parents divorce. Using data … to live in poverty, this finding suggests that children's health problems could be the cause rather than the result of … from the 1988 National Health Interview Survey, the National Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent Health, and the 1970 British …

of their children using micro data from Ghana Demographic and Health Survey, 2008. Using the 2 SLS-IV estimation … health outcomes. Our Hausman test for endogeneity also confirms that health development of children is mediated through …I explore a unique exogenous instrument to examine how the intra-familial position of women influence health outcomes …

Childhood obesity has adverse health and productivity consequences and poses negative externalities to health services … hypothetical investment scenarios. We show that perceived returns are predictive of health investments and outcomes, and that less … educated parents perceive the returns to health investments to be lower, thus contributing to the socioeconomic inequality in …