This paper provides evidence about the quality of retrospective childhood health histories given to respondents in the … HRS and the PSID. Even though information on early life health events is critical, there is legitimate skepticism about … the ability of older respondents to remember specific health problems that they had as a child. The evidence presented in …

century to examine effects of early life conditions on later life health. Our main identification is public health …

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 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 …

This paper examines impacts of childhood health on SES outcomes observed during adulthood-levels and trajectories of … education, poor childhood health has a quantitatively large effect on all these outcomes. Moreover, these estimated effects are …