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 …

While there is a growing literature on family health spillovers, questions remain about how sibling disability status …, sibling spacing and family size). We find that having a disabled sibling significantly decreases 9th grade exit exam GPAs …

This paper examines the effect of Brazil’s Family Health Program (Programa Saude da Familia, FHP) on cognitive skills …

establish that child health- and education-related human capital outcomes are affected by resources of extended family members … family members. Drawing on theoretical models of collective decision-making, we use extremely rich data from Indonesia to … who co-reside with the child and those who are not co-resident. Extended family members are not completely altruistic but …

health conditioned on prior health as well as the more usual unconditioned estimates. We find that health is related to … education and marital status though the marital effects are much weaker when we condition for prior health. These effects … in the state of poor health rather than dying …

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 … towards detecting reinforcement both in this paper and in the literature. Our compensation result for health endowment holds …

It is notoriously difficult to identify peer effects within the family, because of the common shocks and reflection …, disabled or not. We observe consistent evidence in both locations that the second child in a family is differentially affected …