model that includes unscheduled hospitalizations as a measure for unanticipated health shocks and estimate the model on data … from the British National Child Development Study (NCDS). We show that such health shocks increase the likelihood of an … onset of a disability by around 138%. However, health shocks are relatively rare events and therefore the larger part of …

Research on the socioeconomic determinants of health is often based on parental assessments of their children's health …. We assess this approach by comparing directly evaluations from parents, teachers, children and psychiatrists of three … turn results in systematic differences in the estimated magnitude and significance of the health-income gradient …

disorders or DSH, and parental all-cause death. Conditional logistic regression was used for data analysis. Children …-related admissions, and children's psychiatric admissions in particular, largely attenuated the effects of the perinatal social risk … involving both health and social services in the prevention of adolescent DSH. …

the child home environment and reduce stress has larger returns for children with higher socio-emotional skills in early … stressful home environment, an increase has a higher return for children with lower socio-emotional skills in early childhood …

We estimate the causal effect of maternal education on the mental health of mother's children in late adolescence and … adulthood. Theoretical considerations are ambiguous about a causal effect of maternal education on children's mental health. To … causal protective effect of maternal education on children's mental health. Instead, our empirical results suggest a moderate …