This paper estimates the impact of armed conflict on subsequent health outcomes using detailed geographic information … children exposed in utero versus after birth. The identification strategy relies on exogenous variation in the conflict … war-exposed children subsequently have lower height-for-age Z-scores, and impacts using GPS information are 87-188% larger …

This paper investigates long-run effects of episodes of hunger experienced as a child on health status and behavioral … data suggest that individual behavior is a pathway between early life shocks and adult health: It finds that those who …-documented biological channel from early life circumstances to adult health, there is also a behavioral pathway …

We examine how parental health shocks affect children’s non-cognitive skills. Based on a German mother-and-child data … identify effects on outcomes for children at ages of three and six years. At the age of six, we observe that maternal health … base, we draw on significant changes in self-reported parental health as an exogenous source of health variation to …

investigates the long-term consequences on health and education for infants who survived this period. Because no longitudinal data … are available, the estimation of causal effects is performed combining a difference-in-differences estimator with a two …-sample instrumental variable approach. Results indicate that the detrimental health conditions associated with an additional percentage …

We examine how parental health shocks affect children’s non-cognitive skills. Based on a German mother-and-child data … identify effects on outcomes for children at ages of three and six years. At the age of six, we observe that maternal health … base, we draw on significant changes in self-reported parental health as an exogenous source of health variation to …

children’s skills. This paper estimates causal effects of severe parental health shocks on child socio-emotional skills …Child skills are shaped by parental investments. Health shocks to parents can affect these investments and their … rationalized with shocks having a delayed impact on children’s skills …