While there is a growing literature on family health spillovers, questions remain about how sibling disability status … Danish administrative data and variation in the onset of type 1 diabetes to compare education outcomes of focal children with … a disabled sibling to outcomes of focal children without a disabled sibling (matched on date of birth of the focal child …

This paper investigates the robustness of recent findings on the effect of parental background on child health. We are … particularly concerned with the extent to which their finding that income effects on child health are the result of spurious … and child health are correlated with some common unobservable (say, low parental time preference) then least squares …

In this paper we examine the impacts on child health, using diarrhoea as the health outcome, (amongst children living … specific factors. Using cross-sectional health survey data for India, we employ the propensity score method to match children … belonging to different treatment groups, defined by water types and sanitation facilities, with children in a control group. We …

We study the relationship between early life health and adult earnings using a unique dataset that covers almost the … entire population of Swedish males born between 1950 and 1970. The health information is obtained from medical examinations …, although remaining substantial. -- earnings ; health ; specific conditions ; siblings ; twins …

While much is now known about the effects of physical health shocks to pregnant women on the outcomes of the in … two children with the same mother but where a parent of the mother died during one of the pregnancies - augmented with a …

of children from poorer families. -- birth weight ; twins ; education ; IQ ; earnings …

We study the relationship between early life health and adult earnings using a unique dataset that covers almost the … entire population of Swedish males born between 1950 and 1970. The health information is obtained from medical examinations …

information on their health status at the age of 18 and later educational attainment, we investigate whether educational … attainment is related to early health status within monozygotic twin pairs. In general, we obtain no indication of this being so …. As a result, we find little evidence that early health differences between twins would bias the estimates of the returns …

Despite a recent growth in studies examining the association between family income and child health, very few studies … effect of family income on child health in the UK. Using rich observational data from a British cohort study, we exploit … income on subjective child health and control for potential transmission channels through which income could affect child …