This paper examines the long-term impacts on health and healthy behaviors of two of the oldest and most widely cited U … early life interventions for promoting health. …

timing of the health shock. We do this by comparing parents across families in similar parental and child age cohorts whose … children experienced a health shock at different ages. We show that these families have very similar characteristics and were …We provide novel evidence on the impact of a child's health shock on parental labor market outcomes. To identify the …

timing of the health shock. We do this by comparing parents across families in similar parental and child age cohorts whose … children experienced a health shock at different ages. We show that these families have very similar characteristics and were …We provide novel evidence on the impact of a child's health shock on parental labor market outcomes. To identify the …

externalities inflicted by parents when they decide on their children's diet. Within an OLG model with an imperfectly altruistic …

externalities inflicted by parents when they decide on their children's diet. Within an OLG model with an imperfectly altruistic …

substantial changes, such as the move to a 24-hour economy. Researchers have found that children were more likely to have … emotional or behavioural problems when parents worked non-standard hours (Strazdins et al., 2004). We use the Canadia National … Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth (NLSCY) to study this relationship for child weight status. The NLSCY contains …

. This is the first experiment of this kind that finds effects of weight loss rewards up to 18 months after they were removed …

We use a field experiment to investigate the effect of incentives on food purchase decisions at a grocery store. We … after the experiment ends: even when incentives are removed, the treatment group has higher fruit and vegetable purchases …

We study the impact of adult children's internal migration on the health and subjective well-being of elderly parents … positive effect of the migration of daughters on parents' health and life satisfaction, but no such beneficial effects when … left behind, distinguishing between the gender of the migrant children. To overcome migration endogeneity, we exploit novel …

This paper investigates the impact of parental education on child health outcomes. To identify the causal effect we … leaving age by one year had little effect on the health of their offspring. Schooling did however improve economic … child health are at most modest. …