There are many possible pathways between parental education, income, and health, and between child health and education … status (as measured by education, income, occupation, or in some cases area of residence) and child health, and between child … health and adult education or income. Specifically, I ask two questions: What is the evidence regarding whether parental …

There are many possible pathways between parental education, income, and health, and between child health and education … status (as measured by education, income, occupation, or in some cases area of residence) and child health, and between child … health and adult education or income. Specifically, I ask two questions: What is the evidence regarding whether parental …

health. We are particularly concerned about spurious correlation arising from the potential endogeneity of parental income …This paper investigates the robustness of recent findings on the effect of parental education and income on child … and education. Using an instrumental variables approach, our results suggest that the parental income and education …

particularly concerned with the extent to which their finding that income effects on child health are the result of spurious … approach. Our results suggest that the income effects observed in the data are spurious. -- child health ; intergenerational …This paper investigates the robustness of recent findings on the effect of parental background on child health. We are …

particularly concerned with the extent to which their finding that income effects on child health are the result of spurious …This paper investigates the robustness of recent findings on the effect of parental background on child health. We are … and child health are correlated with some common unobservable (say, low parental time preference) then least squares …

variation in the effects of highest education of parents on family’s ability to scale poverty, defined as the household’s income …-to-needs ratio. Methods: This cross-sectional study used data from the National Survey of Children’s Health (NSCH) 2003–2004—a … nationally representative telephone survey that included 86,537 parents of children 0–17 years old. The sample was composed of …