children. The association between maternal birth weight and child school test scores corresponds to 80 percent of the … outcomes of their children, and when controlling for parental education and economic resources. Child test scores are also …

Childhood obesity has adverse health and productivity consequences and poses negative externalities to health services … hypothetical investment scenarios. We show that perceived returns are predictive of health investments and outcomes, and that less … educated parents perceive the returns to health investments to be lower, thus contributing to the socioeconomic inequality in …

affects her children's health, but is also intrinsically linked to her spouse's labor market status and earnings. Paternal … negative effects on their children are compounded. Additionally, the consequences of poor parental health are enduring. Longer …This paper investigates the economic returns to parental health. To account for potential endogeneity between parental …

child working memory - a key skill of executive functioning that plays a central role in children's development of cognitive … preschool enrolment decisions. Children were enrolled earlier and in higher quality preschools, the latter reflecting a shift in …

child working memory - a key skill of executive functioning that plays a central role in children's development of cognitive … preschool enrolment decisions. Children were enrolled earlier and in higher quality preschools, the latter reflecting a shift in …

acknowledged, but relatively little is known about how educational investments by parents may respond to children’s non …-cognitive characteristics. This paper evaluates the parental response to non-cognitive variation across siblings in rural Gansu province, China … for differences between their children, investing more in a child who exhibits greater non-cognitive deficits, while less …

acknowledged, but relatively little is known about how educational investments by parents may respond to children's non …-cognitive characteristics. This paper evaluates the parental response to non-cognitive variation across siblings in rural Gansu province, China … for differences between their children, investing more in a child who exhibits greater non-cognitive deficits, while less …

their schooling investments in rural China. The main estimate implies that when a son receives one yuan less in schooling …

Although the theoretical trade-off between the quantity and quality of children is well-established, empirical evidence … supporting such a causal relationship - particularly on child health - is limited. We use two measures of child health to asses … short-run. -- Intrahousehold allocation ; health ; human capital ; fertility ; quantile treatment effects ; stochastic …