home creates an insurance demand for housing assets early in life. Our contribution is to focus on the importance of home …

home creates an insurance demand for housing assets early in life. Our contribution is to focus on the importance of home …

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. …

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 study the effect of attrition and other forms of non-response on the representativity over time of the Health and … significantly from selection on observables, except for race and ethnicity; for these two observables, longitudinal weights based on … the Current Population Survey (CPS) can be used and are provided with the data set. We attribute this lack of selection to …

To analyze the effect of health on work, many studies use a simple self-assessed health measure based upon a question … such as "do you have an impairment or health problem limiting the kind or amount of work you can do?" A possible drawback … fact that they don't work, non-working respondents may classify a given health problem as a more serious work limitation …

"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 …

century to examine effects of early life conditions on later life health. Our main identification is public health … at the top. -- Childhood health ; disability …

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 … experienced during the prior ten year period. -- Health …

Comparing self-assessed indicators of subjective outcomes such as health, work disability, political efficacy, job …