government physicians - can account for developmental gaps between the children of college educated parents and those of less … also focus on improving the health of disadvantaged children …

government physicians - can account for developmental gaps between the children of college educated parents and those of less … also focus on improving the health of disadvantaged children. -- Health inequality ; human capital formation ; childhood …

significantly poorer health. For example, the father's bodymass index (BMI) is a predictor for their children's BMI. Mothers who …The prevalence and importance of children's physical health problems have been increasingly recognized in recent years …. Physical health problems of children such as obesity, motor impairment and chronic diseases cause social costs. Further, they …

-cognitive child development outcomes. We identify a strong positive association between mothers’ life satisfaction and their children …. Our findings suggest that mothers’ life satisfaction is beneficial for their children’s development at all ages and that it …

father to a more egalitarian one in which the wife and the children have been empowered. This transformation coincided with … rise in relative earnings of wives increased competition between spouses for the love and affection of their children while … the decline in family size reduced competition between children for resources from their parents. The combined effect has …

the literature. However, family structure provides a rather static view of the relationship of children's living … focuses on the impact of family instability on children. In light of human capital accumulation, we hypothesize that a stable … preschool children. By using sibling differences for our adolescents' sample, we find that multiple partnership transitions …

This paper analyses the effects of maternal school starting age and maternal age-at-birth on children's short and long …-term outcomes using Finnish register data. We exploit a school-starting-age rule for identification. Mothers who are born after the …

This paper analyses the effects of maternal school starting age and maternal age-at-birth on children's short and long …-term outcomes using Finnish register data. We exploit a school-starting-age rule for identification. Mothers who are born after the …