In this paper we investigate the effect of stress on the survival probability using a child’s death as the triggering … that bereavement has a stronger impact on fathers, while we find only modest evidence for mothers. This is a novel and …

We study the short-run and long-run economic impact of one of the largest losses that an individual can face; the death … cause of death with parents' labour market outcomes, health outcomes, marital status, and subsequent fertility. We exploit …

We study the short-run and long-run economic impact of one of the largest losses that an individual can face; the death … cause of death with parents' labor market outcomes, health outcomes, marital status, and subsequent fertility. We exploit …

) mortality later in life. In addition, we examine to what extent these long-run effects run by way of cognitive ability and … death cause.The birth weight distribution does not vary over the business cycle. The association between birth weight … (across the full range) and CV mortality rate later in life is significantly stronger if the individual is born in a recession …

parental mortality. Results: Based on 7 measures of sex composition, we find no protective effect of sons in either China or … Taiwan. For example, in the 1989 Taiwan sample, the hazard ratio for maternal mortality associated with having an eldest son … is 0.979 (95% CI (0.863, 1.111). In Taiwan, daughters may have been more beneficial than sons in reducing mortality in …

and their children's health and developmental outcomes. Our estimation sample is large,virtually free of attrition, and … assigned. In adults, we find no evidence that wealth impacts mortality or health care utilization, with the possible exception … mortality one sixth as large the cross-sectional gradient. In our intergenerational analyses, we find that wealth increases …

. I find that infant mortality at birth is positively related to hypertension, even allowing for cohort effects, and …