This paper investigates the sensitivity of the intergenerational transmission of health to exogenous changes in income …, education and public health, changes that are often delivered by economic growth. It uses individual survey data on 2.24 million … maternal and child health as well as in aggregate economic conditions. The country-level panel is exploited to control for …

deterioration of the health care system, changes in diet and obesity, and material deprivation fail to explain the increase in …

We are concerned in this paper with measuring health outcomes among the elderly in Zhejiang and Gansu provinces, China …). We use the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) pilot data to document health conditions among the … China, particularly so for the aged. In general education tends to be positively correlated with better health outcomes, as …

offspring of mothers who experienced the China Great Leap Forward Famine. The direct impact on entrance to senior high school is …

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 …

adult children. It uses the 2003 Scottish Health Survey and estimates the association between the present healthy eating … adverse health signal which may cause a healthy eating compensatory response in adult children. This response is due to …

. We use data from the Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) among elderly individuals. This survey is …, socioeconomic and health status. We find that being born during a recession or boom period significantly influences cognitive …