for these policies was to ensure the health of mothers and their newborn children. With increased female labor market …

compromise these results. We also discuss assortative mating and household income as possible channels of causality. …

This paper investigates the sensitivity of the intergenerational transmission of health to exogenous changes in income … children born to 600000 mothers during 1970-2000 in 38 developing countries. These data are merged with macroeconomic data by … aggregate shocks and trends in unobservables within countries, while a panel of children within mother is exploited to control …

We investigate the impact of exogenous income fluctuations on health using twenty years of data from the Panel Study of … Income Dynamics using techniques from the literature on the estimation of dynamic panel data models. Contrary to much of the … previous literature on health and socio-economic status, we find that, on average, adverse income shocks lead to a …

In this paper, we examine how parental health affects children's development of personality traits and problem behavior … significant impacts on children's emotional symptoms, hyperactivity and neuroticism. Paternal health seems to be less relevant for … the development of these non-cognitive characteristics. However, we observe that paternal health shocks cause children to …

this purpose, we use both an adoption and a twin design and study the effect of parents' education on their children …'s cognitive skills, non-cognitive skills, and health. Our results show that greater parental education increases children …'s cognitive and non-cognitive skills, as well as their health. These results suggest that the effect of parents' education on …

timing of the health shock. We do this by comparing parents across families in similar parental and child age cohorts whose … children experienced a health shock at different ages. We show that these families have very similar characteristics and were … counterfactuals for treated households with families who experience the same shock a few years later. We find a sharp break in parents …

timing of the health shock. We do this by comparing parents across families in similar parental and child age cohorts whose … children experienced a health shock at different ages. We show that these families have very similar characteristics and were … counterfactuals for treated households with families who experience the same shock a few years later. We find a sharp break in parents …

Das Einkommen ist ein wichtiger Bestimmungsgrund des individuellen Lebensstandards und der Teilhabe am … dabei einem Verteilungsmuster, das sich als Gradient beschreiben lässt: je niedriger das Einkommen, desto häufiger treten …Income is an important determinant of individual standards of living and participation in social life. Data from the …