impact on infant health at birth. We find evidence of reduced birth weight, shortened gestational length and even preterm … the causal chain underlying our finding on the adverse health impact of skyglow. Our study has important policy …

data from hospital administrative records between 2003 and 2012, babies' health is found to be strongly pro-cyclical. A one … 1.4%, and a 0.1% decrease in foetal growth. We find heterogenous responses: unemployment has an effect on babies' health … evidence of three channels that can explain the overall negative effect of unemployment on new-born health: maternal stress …

The diversity of potential relationships between child labor and health makes the empirical disentanglement of the … causal relationship a difficult exercise. This paper examines the long run impact of child labour on health by controlling … Condition. The estimation results reinforce the conventional wisdom that child labor is harmful for health in the long run. The …

This paper studies factors that affect health and the nutritional status of children under the age of five. It attempts …-level infrastructure and health knowledge on the health (measured by height and weight) of children. The study’s theoretical framework is … members, ownership of durables — prove to significantly affect the health of children in that household. Another important …

Longitudinal Survey of Youth to estimate the effects of television fast-food restaurant advertising on children and adolescents … being overweight. A ban on these advertisements would reduce the number of overweight children ages 3-11 in a fixed … but would impose lower costs on children and adults who consume fast food in moderation because positive information about …

outcomes. We ask whether birth order differences in health are present at birth using matched administrative data for more than … 1,000,000 children born in Denmark between 1981 and 2010. Using family fixed effects models, we find a positive and … robust birth order effect; earlier born children are less healthy at birth. Looking at the potential mechanisms, we find that …

In this paper we use data from the Ontario Child Health Study, a community panel study which collected socio …-demographic and health information from individuals aged 4-16 in 1983 and which was conducted in three waves (1983, 1987, 2001). A …

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 …