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earnings and family income. We find few differences in estimated gains by baseline health and occupation characteristics …
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There are large and important differences between blacks and whites in nearly every facet of life - earnings, unemployment, incarceration, health, and so on. This chapter contains three themes. First, relative to the 20th century, the significance of discrimination as an explanation for racial...
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earlier years of schooling, or whether education raises health directly or through income or wealth. In this paper, I examine … how the timing of educational attainment is important for adult health outcomes, income, and wealth, in order to … pronounced for income and wealth. In the full sample, the marginal effects on the probability of fair or poor health at age 55 of …
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There are many possible pathways between parental education, income, and health, and between child health and education … status (as measured by education, income, occupation, or in some cases area of residence) and child health, and between child … health and adult education or income. Specifically, I ask two questions: What is the evidence regarding whether parental …
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This paper uses the 2000 Census 1-in-6 sample to look at the long-term impact of Vietnam-era military service. Instrumental Variables estimates using draft-lottery instruments show post-service earnings losses close to zero in 2000, in contrast with earlier results showing substantial earnings...
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their relationships with national income, age, and life-expectancy. Average happiness is strongly related to per capita … national income; each doubling of income is associated with a near one point increase in life satisfaction on a scale from 0 to … slightly stronger among rich countries. Conditional on national income, recent economic growth makes people unhappier …
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are in much worse health than those at the top. This health gradient exists whether education, income, or financial wealth …, feedbacks from new health events to household income are one of the reasons that underlie the strength of the income gradient …
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It has long been recognized that taller adults hold jobs of higher status and, on average, earn more than other workers. A large number of hypotheses have been put forward to explain the association between height and earnings. In developed countries, researchers have emphasized factors such as...
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income per capita and mortality rates, a correlation that also exists within countries, where richer, better-educated people … technical progress (some of which is induced by income and facilitated by education) as the ultimate determinant of health. Such … downplay direct causal mechanisms running from income to health …
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We quantify the lasting effects of childhood health and economic circumstances on adult health and earnings, using data from a birth cohort that has been followed from birth into middle age. We find, controlling for parents' incomes, educations and social status, that children who experience...
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