pain in mid-life (age 44) on health, wellbeing and labor market outcomes in later life. We examine data taken at age 50 in … chronic pain at age 44 continue to report pain and poor general health in their 50s. However, the associations are much … stronger for those with chronic pain. Furthermore, chronic pain at age 44 is associated with a range of poor mental health …

the level of nutrition and health on economic, social, and demographic behavior. It is based on a set of samples covering …

There is a strong, positive and well-documented correlation between education and health outcomes. There is much less … evidence on the extent to which this correlation reflects the causal effect of education on health - the parameter of interest … education on health. Our approach exploits two changes to British compulsory schooling laws that generated sharp differences in …

We use data from the Whitehall II study to examine the potential role played by early-life health and circumstances in … determining health and employment status in middle and older ages. The population from which the Whitehall II cohort was drawn …-life conditions based on the Whitehall II cohort provide a lower bound on the effect of early-life circumstances on adult health and …

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 …

This paper reexamines differences found between income gradients in American and English children's health, in results … the same time period, the income gradient in children's health increases with age by the same amount in the two countries …. In addition, we find that Currie, Shields and Wheatley Price's measures of chronic conditions from the Health Survey of …

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 …

On almost all measures of physical health, Scots fare worse than residents of any other region of the UK and often …

genes and other pregnancy-specific health or social conditions …