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 …

The Irish-born population in England is in worse health than both the native population and the Irish population in … Ireland, however, are healthier than the English population. The substantial Irish health penalty arises principally for … cohorts born between 1920 and 1960. This paper attempts to understand the processes that generated this migrant health pattern …

health outcomes, and their link to socioeconomic factors, at older ages. Since the data are at a comparatively young stage … the most common. What is immediately apparent as we get better measures is that health differences between countries … measures utilize doctor diagnosed conditions or biomarker-based indicators of disease and poor health. But one key finding …

In this paper, we investigate the long-run effects of World War II on socio-economic status (SES) and health of older … individuals in Europe. Physical and psychological childhood events are important predictors for labor market and health outcomes … rare. We will analyze data from SHARELIFE, a retrospective survey conducted as part of the Survey on Health, Aging, and …

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 …

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

countries, partly related to social insurance generosity and employment protection. Furthermore, we find significant evidence of …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 of …

and the HRS, with a particular focus on whether attrition is systematically related to health outcomes and socioeconomic … status (SES). Investigating the links between health and SES is one of the primary goals of the ELSA and HRS, so attrition …

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 …