The impact of socio-economic status on health has been widely recognized, but the independent impact of social status … alone on health remains inconclusive. We approach this challenge by exploiting a natural experiment in which subjects … immortal-time bias in favor of academicians and 2) the endogenous relationship between health and social status, we find that …

We report evidence of long-term adverse health impacts of in utero exposure to malnutrition based on survivors in their … data provided by the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) to corroborate evidence supporting the Fetal … Origin Hypothesis.We find that fetal exposure to malnutrition has large and long-lasting impacts on both physical health and …