In this paper we examine the link between retrospectively reported measures of childhood health and the prevalence of … Health and Retirement Study and the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing - nationally representative surveys of the age 50 … plus population in America and England respectively. We show that the origins of poorer adult health among older Americans …

before age 5 until their death and analyzing the link between the characteristics of their childhood environment …

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

health outcomes using two data sources: the National Health Interview Surveys (NHIS) and the Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS … health and maternal reports of the number of bed days in the past year (i.e. morbidity). The NIS data was used to examine the … known to be sensitive to medical intervention and are objective measures of children's health. The results of this paper …

I study the impact of transportation on health in the rural US, 1820–1847. Measuring health by average stature, I find … on its health. A one-standard deviation increase in market access reduced average stature by 0.14 inches, and rising … Antebellum Puzzle. I find evidence that transportation affected health by increasing population density, leading to a worse …

breastfeeding on child disability using data from the National Survey of Family Growth merged to the National Health Interview …

health improvements, which we estimate at 1.82 years of quality-adjusted life. However, these were roughly offset by … health by way of behavioral improvements and public health are possible …