suggests that this may have negative long-term health effects on their offspring. Building upon the work of Almond and Mazumder …’s pregnancy have a poorer general health and are sick more often than people who were not exposed. This effect is especially … pronounced among older people, who, when exposed, also report health problems more often that are indicative of coronary heart …

We investigate if there is a causal link between education and health knowledge using data from the 1984/85 and 1991 …/92 waves of the UK Health and Lifestyle Survey (HALS). Uniquely, the survey asks respondents what they think are the main … causes of ten common health conditions, and we compare these answers to those given by medical professionals to form an index …

’s results are robust to the inclusion of controls such as education, IQ, physical health, height, self-esteem, and later …

The question of whether there is a lasting effect of childhood experience on mental health has eluded causal … one standard deviation change in mental health due to idiosyncratic experience at age 9 will still be present three years … later. Extending the analysis, we find such persistence to vary with age at impact, gender, and mental health sub …

Recessions lead to short-term job loss, lower levels of happiness and decreasing income levels. There is growing … disturbing long-run effect of recessions: young people who leave school in the midst of recessions are significantly more likely …

recessions. It follows that recessions exacerbate existing racial inequalities. …