In this paper, we model the consequences of childhood health on adult health and socio-economic status outcomes in … China using a new sample of middle aged and older Chinese respondents. Modeled after the American Health and Retirement …. Childhood health in CHARLS relies on two measures that proxy for different dimensions of health during the childhood years. The …

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 …

Adult height, as a marker of childhood health, has recently become a focus in understanding the relationship between … childhood health and health outcomes at older ages. However, measured height of the older individuals is contaminated by height … shrinkage from aging. Height shrinkage, in turn may be correlated with health conditions and socio-economic status from …