of a large daycare expansion in Germany on children’s age-specific mental and physical health outcomes. Based on a unique …Over the past decades, the share of very young children in daycare has increased significantly in many OECD countries …, including Germany. Despite the relevance of child health for child development and later life success, the effect of early …

comprehensive set of health, non-cognitive development, and academic outcomes of children and adolescents. Applying an individual …The relationship between physical activity and child health and development is well-documented, yet the extant … literature provides limited causal insight into the amount of physical activity considered optimal for improving any given health …

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 …

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 …

of a large daycare expansion in Germany on children's age-specific mental and physical health outcomes. Based on a unique …Over the past decades, the share of very young children in daycare has increased significantly in many OECD countries …, including Germany. Despite the relevance of child health for child development and later life success, the effect of early …

of a large daycare expansion in Germany on children's age-specific mental and physical health outcomes. Based on a unique …Over the past decades, the share of very young children in daycare has increased significantly in many OECD countries …, including Germany. Despite the relevance of child health for child development and later life success, the effect of early …

and their children's health and developmental outcomes. Our estimation sample is large, virtually free of attrition, and … children's health care utilization in the years following the lottery and may also reduce obesity risk. The effects on most …) wealth and health or (ii) parental income and children's outcomes do not reflect a causal effect of wealth …

We report evidence of long-term adverse health impacts of in utero exposure to malnutrition based on survivors in their … data provided by the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) to corroborate evidence supporting the Fetal … Origin Hypothesis.We find that fetal exposure to malnutrition has large and long-lasting impacts on both physical health and …

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 …