The Irish-born population in England is in worse health than both the native population and the Irish population in … Ireland, however, are healthier than the English population. The substantial Irish health penalty arises principally for … cohorts born between 1920 and 1960. This paper attempts to understand the processes that generated this migrant health pattern …

In this paper, the authors model the consequences of childhood health on adult health and socioeconomic status outcomes … in China using a new sample of middle aged and older Chinese respondents. Modeled after the American Health and … West. Childhood health in CHARLS relies on two measures that proxy for different dimensions of health during the childhood …

This paper provides evidence about the quality of retrospective childhood health histories given to respondents in the … Health and Retirement Survey and the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. Even though information on early life health events is … critical, there is legitimate skepticism about the ability of older respondents to remember specific health problems that they …

This paper examines the impact of childhood health on a series of SES outcomes observed during adulthood. These … childhood health has a quantitatively large effect on all these outcomes. Moreover, these estimated effects are much larger when …