Rich literatures across multiple disciplines document the association between increased
educational attainment and improved health. While quasi-experimental studies have …

We use administrative data on Swedish lottery players to estimate the causal impact of
substantial wealth shocks on players' own health and their children's health and …

There are many possible pathways between parental education, income, and health, and
between child health and education, but only some of them have been explored in the …

This study examines how maternal education shapes the life and health of their children.
Causal effects are identified from a Danish school reform that increased minimum …

In the wake of strong, although later refuted, claims of a link between autism and the
measles‐mumps‐rubella (MMR) vaccine, I examine whether fewer parents immunized or …

The measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) controversy provides an interesting case where, for
a short period of time, research publicized in the media, suggested a potential risk of serious …

We provide new evidence on some of the mechanisms reflected in the intergenerational
transmission of human capital. Applying both an adoption and a twin design to rich data from …

This study expands existing scholarship on the relationship between parental educational
similarity and infant health using rich administrative data from Chile covering births that …

This study explores the relationship between parental educational similarity—educational
concordance (homogamy) or discordance (heterogamy)—and children's health outcomes …

We study in-utero exposure to economic fluctuations on birth outcomes by exploiting
geographical variation in the unemployment rate across local areas in England, and by …