Project Title: Local Economic Conditions, Parental Job Displacement, and Children’s Health

Project Description: This project will provide the observed correlation between family income and children’s health has been often cited as a key mechanism in the intergenerational transmission of socioeconomic status. The proposed project investigates this link in two ways – first, by estimating the effects of parental job displacement on children’s health, and second, by studying the effects of aggregate economic conditions on kids’ health outcomes.