). At least some of these health-related differences can be causally attributed to the mother's education. Social … differences are already reflected in the health of newborn babies: mothers with a higher level of education are less likely to … have preterm births or to give birth to babies with low weight. In other words, there are health inequalities from birth …

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 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 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 …

We investigate sibling correlations in health status using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and Bayesian methods that … estimate that between 50% and 60% of health status can be attributed to familial or neighborhood characteristics. Taking the … previous estimates of sibling correlations in health that rely on linear models, are more in-line with sibling correlations in …

This is the first study investigating the causal effect of maternal education on child's health and schooling outcomes … instrumenting maternal education by the number of her siblings while conditioning on a set of variables describing the grandparents … variation in the years of education by affecting the household resources available per child. We present evidence for strong and …

This is the first study investigating the causal effect of maternal education on child's health and schooling outcomes … instrumenting maternal education by the number of her siblings while conditioning on a set of variables describing the grandparents … variation in the years of education by affecting the household resources available per child. We present evidence for strong and …

We investigate sibling correlations in health status using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and Bayesian methods that … estimate that between 50% and 60% of health status can be attributed to familial or neighborhood characteristics. Taking the … previous estimates of sibling correlations in health that rely on linear models, are more in-line with sibling correlations in …

It is well known that a substantial part of income and education is passed on from parents to children, generating … capital, health, is also largely transmitted from generation to generation, contributing to limited socio-economic mobility …. Using data from the NLSY, we first present new evidence on intergenerational transmission of health outcomes in the U …

We estimate sibling correlations in health status using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. We use Bayesian methods to … between 50% and 60% of health status can be attributed to familial or neighborhood characteristics. Taking the principal … than previous estimates of sibling correlations in health that rely on linear models, are more in-line with sibling …