I investigate how the relationship between health status and retirement among older men has changed since 1900 using … weight adjusted for height or Body Mass Index (BMI) as a proxy for health. I find that both in 1900 and in 1985-1991 the …, suggesting that health is now less important to the retirement decision than in the past. The difference in the relative risk of …

an integrated developmental approach to child and adult health that considers the costs and benefits of interventions … over the life cycle. We suggest policies to promote child health which are currently outside the boundaries of conventional …

mental health in a sample of rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta). We analyze the health records of 231 monkeys which were … detrimental long-term effects on health which are not compensated by a normal social environment later in life …

I discuss the health transition in the United States, bringing new data to bear on health indicators, and investigating … the changing relationship between health, income, and the environment. I argue that scientific advances played an outsize … role and that health improvements were largest among the poor. Health improvements were not a precondition for modern …

We investigate when and how health shocks reverberate across the life cycle and down to descendants in a manual labor …

-run health follow-ups of the interaction between stress and social networks in a human population in which both stress and social …

This paper examines the long-term impacts on health and healthy behaviors of two of the oldest and most widely cited U … early life interventions for promoting health …

An open question in the literature is whether families compensate or reinforce the impact of child health shocks … negative early health shocks at ages 0-3, the other twin sibling who did suffer negative health shocks received RMB 305 more in … terms of health investments, but received RMB 182 less in terms of educational investments in the 12 months prior to the …

implying that in the past health inequality was transmitted across generations. I also show that" children born at the … health of past populations therefore originated in part in the first days of life." …