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 …

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 …

This paper combines German claims and survey data to provide a comprehensive picture of the health dynamics surrounding … the transition into motherhood. Event-study estimates reveal good mental health around birth, but declines afterward, as …

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 …

outcomes and maternal employment, less attention has been given to its effects on maternal health despite its relevance within … the household. This study investigates the impact of public early childcare on maternal short- and long-term health. Based … on administrative health records covering 90% of the German population over a decade, we leverage the exogenous variation …

British children who were all potentially exposed in the womb. Epidemic effects are identified using geographic variation in a … at 7 and 11, but only for the offspring of mother's with certain health characteristics. By contrast, the impact of the … across maternal health and socioeconomic indicators. Taken together, our results point to multiple channels linking foetal …

weight with an increase from the baseline weight ranging from 2% to 6%. -- Returns to education ; health …

The first half of the twentieth century saw rapid improvements in the health and height of British children. Average … century. -- Heights of children ; infant mortality ; health in Britain … height and health can be related to infant mortality through a positive selection effect and a negative scarring effect …

model that includes unscheduled hospitalizations as a measure for unanticipated health shocks and estimate the model on data … from the British National Child Development Study (NCDS). We show that such health shocks increase the likelihood of an … onset of a disability by around 138%. However, health shocks are relatively rare events and therefore the larger part of …