on aggregate health expenditures, but mothers saw reduced preventative care and increased mental health treatment …

parental resources during our upbringing that can be influenced by public policy? We study the formation of adult health and … biological and adopting parents. We find that the health of the biological parents affects the health of their adopted children …-term health. However, we also find strong evidence that the educational attainment of the adopting mother has a significant impact …

education. Based on the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health, we find that an education PGS has a … beneficial effect on multiple health-related outcomes in young adulthood both indirectly though education and directly. In … addition, we find that socioeconomic status (SES) moderates the relationship between the PGS and health outcomes so that …

representative cohorts of children born to the NLSY respondents over time with detailed information on families, locations, health …

This paper investigates whether and to what extent long-run trends in population health affected income inequality in … the United States over the period 1960-2000. To isolate exogenous variation in health over time, the analysis exploits the … prevention of these diseases after 1960. The results demonstrate that health improvements contributed to rising income inequality …

representative cohorts of children born to the NLSY respondents over time with detailed information on families, locations, health …

Studies using education policy reforms to isolate causal effects of education on health produce mixed evidence. We … analyse an unusually large sample and study chronic health conditions. For identification, we use two major education reforms … method generated precise estimates of the impact of education on a comprehensive range of health conditions. Our results …

This paper investigates the relationship between parental health shocks and children's engagement in education and … substantial evidence showing the intergenerational transmission of health, the literature investigating the impact of parental … health on children's educational and labour market outcomes is limited, especially in developing countries. We use child …