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 …

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 …

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 …