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 …

attainment of taller individuals. We then turn to the NLSY79 Children and Young Adult Survey to better understand what specific …

This paper reexamines differences found between income gradients in American and English children's health, in results … the same time period, the income gradient in children's health increases with age by the same amount in the two countries … are larger in the English sample than in the American sample, and that income plays a larger role in buffering children …

of socioeconomic status may work through the impact of parents' long run average income on children's health … Examination Survey, we find that children's health is positively related to household income. The relationship between household … income and children's health status becomes more pronounced as children grow older. A large component of the relationship …