health outcomes after age fifty. Having lived in a children s home, in a foster family, or having suffered a period of hunger …In this paper we address the long-run effects of childhood shocks on health in late adulthood. Applying a life … and later health into a-priori unknown groups, we show that some adverse shocks have opposite effects for specific groups. …

Prior empirical research on the theoretically proposed interaction between the quantity and the quality of children …, extend the empirical approach in two ways. First, we add health as an additional outcome di- mension. Second, we apply a semi …

Little is known about the response behavior of parents whose children are exposed to an early-life shock. In this paper … more effective because we do not find any detrimental long-term effects for exposed children from higher socioeconomic … backgrounds. In contrast, exposed children from low socioeconomic backgrounds have significantly worse labor market outcomes as …

education-health gradient by using alternative measures of child personality available in the National Child Development Study …. We show that, alternatively to the authors conclusions, personality contributes to the education-health gradient to an …