We are concerned in this paper with measuring health outcomes among the elderly in Zhejiang and Gansu provinces, China …, and examining the relationships between different dimensions of health status and measures of socio-economic status (SES …). We use the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) pilot data to document health conditions among the …

There is increasing interest in neighborhood or area effects on health and individual development. China, due to its … vast regional variations in health infrastructure and geography and relative immobility of older residents, provides a rare … opportunity to study such effects. Utilizing China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) baseline survey 2011 …

We investigate long-run effects of episodes of hunger experienced as a child on health status and behavioral outcomes … suggest that individual behavior is a pathway between early life shocks and adult health: We find that those who experienced …-documented biological channel from early life circumstances to adult health, there is also a behavioral pathway. …

In this paper, we investigate the long-run effects of World War II on socio-economic status (SES) and health of older … individuals in Europe. Physical and psychological childhood events are important predictors for labor market and health outcomes … rare. We will analyze data from SHARELIFE, a retrospective survey conducted as part of the Survey on Health, Aging, and …

olds, we estimate similar health gradients in income and wealth in both countries, but for 70-80 year old, we find no … benefits are largely flat and independent of past income and hence past health during the working years. Finally, we report …

Looking across many diseases, average health among mature men is much worse in America compared to England. Second …, there exists a steep negative health gradient for men in both countries where men at the bottom of the economic hierarchy … are in much worse health than those at the top. This health gradient exists whether education, income, or financial wealth …

and the HRS, with a particular focus on whether attrition is systematically related to health outcomes and socioeconomic … status (SES). Investigating the links between health and SES is one of the primary goals of the ELSA and HRS, so attrition …

This paper investigates the role of pain in affecting self-reported work disability and employment of elderly workers …, using six biennial waves from the Health and Retirement Study. They find the dynamics of the presence of pain is central to … the dynamic patterns of employment. …

This paper investigates the role of pain in affecting self-reported work disability and employment of elderly workers … biennial waves from the Health and Retirement Study. We find the dynamics of the presence of pain is central to understanding … dynamic patterns of employment. …

crisis on labor market outcomes. Aggregate employment has remained remarkably robust through the crisis although there has … been significant switching within sectors. The drama of the crisis lies not in aggregate employment but in real hourly …