from a birth cohort that has been followed from birth into middle age. We find, controlling for parents' incomes …, educations and social status, that children who experience poor health have significantly lower educational attainment, and … effects on educational attainment and initial adult health. Taken together with earlier findings that poorer children enter …

Understanding whether the gradient in children's health becomes steeper with age is an important first step in … uncovering the mechanisms that connect economic and health status, and in recommending sensible interventions to protect children … the same source, reach markedly different conclusions about income-health gradients in childhood. We find that differences …

schooling has had a chance to play a role -- and throughout childhood, taller children perform significantly better on cognitive … children are much more likely to become tall adults. As adults, taller individuals are more likely to select into higher paying …

We estimate the impact of family structure on investments made in children's health, using data from the 1988 National … Health Interview Survey Child Health Supplement. Controlling for household size, income and characteristics, we find that … children living with step mothers are significantly less likely to have routine doctor and dentist visits, or to have a place …