on the health of her adoptive children, suggesting that family environment and resources in the post-birth years have … 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 …

health and longevity in contrast to other twin-based studies of the US population, which show little or no effect of … education on health. Second, we present evidence that parents compensate for differences in their children's health endowments …

In this paper, we estimate socioeconomic heterogeneity in the effect of unexpected health shocks on labor market … heterogeneity in the effects, in which individuals with a low education level suffer relatively more from a given health shock …. These results hold across a wide range of different types of health shocks and become more pronounced with age. Our results …

comparison with Sweden shows that infant and maternal health is worse in California at virtually all income levels … in infant and maternal health. Infants and mothers at the top of the income distribution have worse birth and morbidity …. Racial disparities swamp these income disparities, with no racial convergence in health outcomes as income rises. A …

persistence in health inequality across generations into pre-birth and post-birth components. We use three sets of measures for … health outcomes in the second generation: mortality, measures based on data on hospitalization and, finally, measures using … intergenerational persistence in health is attributable to the biological parents …

Sweden was early to legalize same-sex partnership (1995), to allow same-sex couples to adopt children (2003), and to … offer same-sex couples fertility treatment through the national health system (2005). Using population data, we identify …

This chapter reviews the existing empirical evidence on how social insurance affects health. Social insurance … encompasses programs primarily designed to insure against health risks, such as health insurance, sick leave insurance, accident …. Surprisingly, evidence on how changes in coverage impact beneficiaries' health is scant and inconclusive. This lack of identified …

income distribution. In this paper, we examine the effects of minimum wage increases on the health of low-educated Hispanic … typically have less access to health care. Using a difference-in-differences identification strategy and data drawn from the … that low-educated Hispanic women likely affected by minimum wage increases experience any changes in health status, access …

income distribution. In this paper, we examine the effects of minimum wage increases on the health of the children of … immigrants. Their parents are disproportionately represented in minimum wage jobs, typically have less access to health care and … the National Health Interview Survey from the years 2000-2015, we examine whether children of low-educated immigrants …

We study the relationship between the length of maternity leave and the physical and psychological health of the family … compensation, we estimate the effect of the length of maternity leave on a range of health indicators including the number of … maternity leave matters for child or maternal health outcomes and thus we complement the existing evidence on maternity leave …