We investigated the effects of the timing of early prenatal care on infant health by exploiting a reform that required … deaths, we identified small but statistically significant positive effects of the policy on neonatal health. We further … provide suggestive evidence that improved maternal health-related knowledge and behaviors during pregnancy are plausible …

their offspring. We show that the reform was detrimental for the health of the son's of affected parents at delivery. Yet …We explore the effects of a child labor regulation that changed the legal working age from 14 to 16 over the health of …, in the medium run, the effects of the reform are insignificant for both male and female children. The sons of treated …

Twin births are often construed as a natural experiment in the social and natural sciences on the premise that the … for 17 million births in 72 countries, we demonstrate that indicators of mother's health and health-related behaviours are … and poorer countries, evident even among women who do not use IVF, and hold for numerous different measures of health. We …

compensating or reinforcing behaviors by parents. These biases may be particularly important for estimating the effects of parental … parental favoritism to adjust for potential reinforcing behavior by parents. Standard fixed effects estimates suggest important …

children from low socioeconomic background are more likely to suffer from ‘objectively measured’ health problems - except for …We use newly available data from Germany to study the relationship between parental income and child health. We find a … strong gradient between parental income and subjective child health as has been documented earlier in the US, Canada and the …

, with coresidence burdens on children creating disincentives for parents to invest in their health. Studying Japanese data …The empirical evidence of the effect of intergenerational coresidence by elderly parents and their adult children on … parental health remains fairly inconclusive. The aim of this paper is twofold: (1) to estimate a reliable coresidence effect …

Based on comprehensive administrative health record data from Austria, this study examines how children's mental health … restricted to children who experience the health shock of a parent at some point in time and we exploit the timing of shocks in a … dynamic DID setting. We find a positive causal effect of parental health shocks on children's mental health care utilization …

We investigate the intergenerational effect of parental health shocks on the fertility choices of adult children in … China. By using a comprehensive longitudinal dataset of Chinese households, severe and unexpected health shocks to parents … Matching (PSM). Our findings indicate that parental health shocks significantly postpone the reproductive age of adult children …

three generations (grandparents-parents-children) to explore the effects of parental education and different parental … associations with long-term health, educational and labour-market outcomes. This paper exploits intergenerational information on … behaviour and the corresponding parental variables to aid the identification of parents' education and smoking on birth weight …