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 …

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 …

Comparing self-assessed indicators of subjective outcomes such as health, work disability, political efficacy, job …

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 …