countries, little is known about the long-term consequences for the mothers and children involved. In this study, I use a sample …—to study the causal effect of C-sections on child health and on the health, fertility and labor market responses for mothers … Swedish registry data, I find that having a C-section improves child health in both the short and long run, indicated by …

We contribute to the literature on the determinants of socioeconomic health disparities by studying how the health … function as a mediator between family background and subsequent poor health behavior, potentially reconciling previous mixed … evidence on the relationship between child health and social status. Using data from a unique German child health survey we …

We analyze to what extent health outcomes of Swedish children are worse among children whose parents become unemployed …. To this end we combine Swedish hospitalization data for 1992-2007 for children 3-18 years of age with register data on … parental unemployment. We find that children with unemployed parents are 17 percent more likely to be hospitalized than other …

We analyze to what extent health outcomes of Swedish children are worse among children whose parents become unemployed …. To this end we combine Swedish hospitalization data for 1992-2007 for children 3-18 years of age with register data on … parental unemployment. We find that children with unemployed parents are 17 percent more likely to be hospitalized than other …

and their children's health and developmental outcomes. Our estimation sample is large,virtually free of attrition, and …) wealth and health or (ii) parental income and children's outcomes do not reflect a causal effect of wealth. …We use administrative data on Swedish lottery players to estimate the causal impact of wealth on players' own health …

certain health investments, including children's diets. Our results support the notion that traditional gender roles can …This paper studies the causal effect of maternal and paternal unemployment on child health in China, analyzing panel … paternal unemployment reduces child health, while maternal unemployment has beneficial child health impacts. Analysis of …

investigates whether there is a relationship between outages and the health of children. Specifically, I study the differences in … electricity suppliers. Outages may have an adverse impact on the household's welfare including the health of household members … the anthropometric outcomes of children aged 5 and below (given by the z-scores) living in households that experience …

Birth weight is the most widely used indicator of neonatal health, mainly because it is routinely recorded in birth … of the fetus and of the newborn are more informative about the prenatal environment and more predictive of child health …

Evidence for the short-term impact of early intervention on childhood health is weak and inconsistent. Using rigorous … programme on child health. The treatment provides mentoring visits from pregnancy until school entry to improve child outcomes … through positively affecting parenting. In a context where socioeconomic inequalities in health have yet to emerge, modest …

maternal stressors are potential explanations for the negative health effects on children. …We estimate the impact of exposure to conflict on health outcomes using geographic information on households' distance … from conflict sites - a more accurate measure of shock exposure – and compare the impact on children exposed in utero …