While much is now known about the effects of physical health shocks to pregnant women on the outcomes of the in …-utero child, we know little about the effects of psychological stresses. One clear form of stress to the mother comes from the … death of a parent. We examine the effects of the death of the mother's parent during pregnancy on both the short-run and the …

have advocated increasing the time that elementary school children spend in physical education (PE) classes. However … particular, boys), while the instrument is insufficiently powerful to reliably estimate effects for younger children. This …

local children. Reduced-form estimates offer evidence of adverse impacts almost 1.5 years after the shock: a worsening of … children’s anthropometrics of 0.3 standard deviations, an increase of 15 to 20 percentage points in the incidence of infectious … diseases and an increase of roughly 7 percentage points in mortality for children under five. I also exploit intra- and inter …

poor mental health. We also find that left-handed children have significantly lower cognitive development test scores than …Using data from the US National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, and fitting family fixed-effects models of child health … and cognitive development, we test if left-handed children do significantly worse than their right-handed counterparts …

This paper examines the determinants of the health of children ages 6 to 19, as reported in the Child Development … health and the three measures of religion/religiosity. Those children (self-report or primary caregiver report) who have … overall health and psychological health of the child. Three measures of religion/religiosity of the child are employed …

Health Surveys, we find suggestive evidence that increased exposure to TV affects in particular fertility preferences and … electricity and fertility. We find no evidence that changes to direct and indirect costs of children play a role. Overall, the …

to sons seem to have caused families to change the sex-composition of and health investments in their children. …

about fertility, education of their children and the type and intensity of the investments in their own education. These …