This paper explores the intergenerational effects of parental health shocks using longitudinal data from the Young … Lives project conducted in Andhra Pradesh, India. It is found that health shocks to poorer parents reduce investments in … children thereby reducing their future earnings, and perpetuating poverty and inequality. The paper discusses important …

, university attendance, IQ and health? A structural model decomposes household shocks into permanent and transitory components …, then the effect of shocks at age 1-16 is estimated for 600,000 Norwegian children. The effect of permanent shocks declines …

This paper estimates the effect of economic shocks that affect families with young children on children's health … economy. Analyzing household survey data from Russia I find that children who were under the age of five and whose parents … were negatively affected during the early transition have poorer health in adolescence and are less likely to have …

We explore the effects of a child labor regulation that changed the legal working age from 14 to 16 over the health of … their offspring. We show that the reform was detrimental for the health of the son’s of affected parents at delivery. Yet …, in the medium run, the effects of the reform are insignificant for both male and female children. The sons of treated …

Poor health at birth has negative long-run effects on individual well-being and is also detrimental for … intergenerational mobility. This paper examines whether health outcomes at birth are affected by in utero increased exposure to rainfall … shocks by municipality and date of birth. The analysis finds negative effects of temperature shocks on birth health outcomes …