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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …