-imposed lock-downs may not present a clear trade-off between GDP and public health, as commonly believed, even though its immediate …

, and health status using data from the National Child Development Study. The study has followed the cohort of children born … that LBW has significant long-term effects on self-reported health status, educational attainments, and labor market … women of LBW are less likely to report that they are in poor or fair health than other LBW women …

This paper is an empirical investigation of childhood and adolescent health and cognitive development as determined by … estimated to have no significant influence on health and cognitive development, but parents' education a strong positive …

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

Recent research shows that health at birth is affected by many factors, including maternal education, behaviors, and … generations. Exposure to environmental pollution is one potential determinant of health at birth that has received increasing …

occupational status is related to the health transitions of 30 to 59 year-old U.S. males. A recent history of blue …-collar employment predicts a substantial increase in the probability of transitioning from very good into bad self-assessed health …, relative to white-collar employment, but with no evidence of occupational differences in movements from bad to very good health …

not asked how insults to child health after birth affect long-term outcomes, whether health at birth matters primarily … because it predicts future health or through some other mechanism, or whether health insults matter more at some key ages than … at others? We address these questions using a unique data set based on public health insurance records for 50 …

This paper reviews the evidence on the well-known positive association between socioeconomic status and health. We … particular attention to how the mechanisms linking health to each of these dimensions diverge and coincide. The extent to which … socioeconomic advantage causes good health varies, both across these four dimensions and across the phases of the lifecycle …