understandinghow these shocks can affect the educational attainment, adult health, and adult income of the children who lived through …, education, or health. Through the study of the case of polio, this thesis contributes to our understanding of scarring effects … association between parental loss during childhood and lower adult income, educational attainment, and worse health. This analysis …

We provide novel evidence on the impact of a child's health shock on parental labor market outcomes. To identify the … timing of the health shock. We do this by comparing parents across families in similar parental and child age cohorts whose … children experienced a health shock at different ages. We show that these families have very similar characteristics and were …

The program evaluation literature for population and health policies is in flux, with many disciplines documenting … economists can clarify regarding the causal relationships between economic development, health outcomes, and reproductive … under which people live and their expected life span and health status refers to “health production functions.” The …