In this paper the authors examine the link between retrospectively reported measures of childhood health and the … placed in the 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. They show that the origins of poorer adult health among …

in ELSA and the HRS, with a particular focus on whether attrition is systematically related to health outcomes and … socioeconomic status (SES). Investigating the links between health and SES is one of the primary goals of the ELSA and HRS, so …

This paper is concerned with measuring health outcomes among the elderly in Zhejiang and Gansu provinces, China, and … examining the relationships between different dimensions of health status and measures of socio-economic status (SES). The … authors use the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) pilot data to document health conditions among the …