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 dimension. Second, we apply a semi …

decreases, and the two have different implications for human health. An alternative measure for net current biological …

We show that children who are born at the weekend or just before are less likely to be breastfed, owing to poorer … breastfeeding support services at weekends. We use this variation to estimate the effect of breastfeeding on children's development … for a sample of uncomplicated births from low educated mothers. We find that breastfeeding has large effects on children …

from the Vital Statistics, it compares the health distribution (in terms of birth outcomes) of immigrant children born in …This paper provides new empirical evidence on the contribution of selective migration to the health advantage of … destination. These comparisons suggest that positive selection is partly responsible for the health advantage of recent immigrants. …

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 …

the effects of air quality on children's health. The IV estimates show that the respiratory illness health care visit rate …. Importantly, by linking the health care data to detailed records of parental background characteristics, we show that children … outpatient records for the universe of children in Sweden during a six-year period to provide instrumental variable estimates of …

This study investigates the effects of maternal education on child's health and health behavior. We draw on a rich … effects on health behavior for adolescent daughters, but neither for adolescent sons nor for the health status of newborns. We …'s health behavior, assortative mating, household income, and child¿s schooling track as possible channels of the estimated …

We investigate long-run effects of episodes of hunger experienced as a child on health status and behavioral outcomes … suggest that individual behavior is a pathway between early life shocks and adult health: We find that those who experienced …-documented biological channel from early life circumstances to adult health, there is also a behavioral pathway. …

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 dimension. Second, we apply a semi …

Individuals' socioeconomic status (SES) is positively correlated with their health status. While the existence of this … insights on the causal structure of the health-SES nexus. We introduce some methodological refinements and integrate … retrospective survey data on early childhood circumstances into this framework. We confirm that childhood health has lasting …