the first evidence on the determinants of uptake of two recent public dental benefit programs for Australian children and …. For instance, mothers with worse mental health or riskier lifestyles are much less likely to claim the available benefits … for their children. These barriers to uptake are particularly large in magnitude: together they reduce the uptake rate by …

This paper examines the extent to which childhood circumstances contribute to health inequality in old age and how the … contributions may vary across key dimensions of health. We link the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) in 2013 … and 2015 with its Life History Survey in 2014 to quantify health inequality due to childhood circumstances for which they …

Health at birth is an important indicator of human capital development over the life course. This paper uses … larger for boys, children from rural or poor households, and those with less-educated mothers. Our findings suggest that … health policies designed to improve birth weight could improve human capital in resource-poor settings. …

countries and whether and how the policies affect women's labor market outcomes, their own and children's health, and child …

at home among older adults. The HCBS program may improve health outcomes of this population by allowing them to age … benefits. We use plausibly exogenous policy expenditure across states over time linked with detailed health information from … the restricted Health and Retirement Study (HRS) to identify the causal effects of HCBS on general health, physical health …

aging population. Using detailed information about health from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) linked with state …-level HCBS policy expenditures, we show that HCBS is beneficial to improve general health outcomes of older individuals. Our … health status, mitigating functional mobility limitations, showing better emotional feelings, and increasing cognitive skills …

This paper investigates the intergenerational effect of communication barriers on child health at birth using a natural … records of all refugee arrivals and birth events between 2010 and 2017 show that children born to mothers who were exogenously …

Family structure is usually believed to affect children's human capital. Is it possible that causality goes in the … child with health problems when women enter the last decade of their reproductive life. I present a simple theoretical model …

Research on the effect of in utero shocks on health at birth may be influenced by in utero selection. This study … changes the probability of fetal death and (ii) health differences exist between deceased and surviving fetuses. Furthermore …