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 …

supply, but very little is known about how the minimum wage affects health, including children's health. We address this … health. Using data on the entire universe of births in the US over 25 years, we find that an increase in the minimum wage is …, which are some channels through which minimum wage can affect infant health. Labor market policies that enhance wages can …

, dispossession, or hunger and health outcomes after 50 years of age. Having lived in a children’s home, in a foster family, or having …In this article, we address the long-run associations between childhood shocks and health in late adulthood. Applying a … correlations between shocks and later health into a priori unknown groups, we show that some adverse shocks show opposite relations …

intergenerational mobility if parents at the bottom of the income distribution invest significantly less in their children’s human … capital. I consider whether public investments in children can potentially offset the inequality of private investments … period 2000–2009, I find that increases in spending on health are most strongly associated with reductions in the importance …

Little is known about the response behavior of parents whose children are exposed to an early-life shock. We interpret … of the long-term effects of early-life shocks on children. These estimates should only be interpreted as reduced … lower bound of the biological effect. For exposed children from higher socioeconomic backgrounds, there are no detrimental …

Despite plausible mechanisms, little research has evaluated potential changes in health behaviors as a result of the … health behaviors for pregnant women, which is a group of particular interest given evidence of the importance of prenatal … health to later life outcomes. We exploit exogenous variation from the Medicaid income eligibility expansions for pregnant …