century to examine effects of early life conditions on later life health. Our main identification is public health …

demographics, human capital and health status. While parsimonious models suggest that height is protective against depression, the … addition of controls, particularly related to health, suggests the reverse effect: tall people are predicted to have slightly … health and human capital. -- Height ; Depression ; Well-being ; Life satisfaction ; Health …

Birth weight is an important aspect of public health which has been linked to increased risk of infant death, increased …, including test scores, hospital stays and health. An advantage of the data is that I am able to control for a number of … conditions and later outcomes. -- Early Life Conditions ; Birth Weight ; Health Inequalities ; Test Scores …

This paper reviews methods for studying dominance and inequality in health economics. It concentrates on "pure … methods for cases when health can be measured cardinally and ordinally. There is also a brief review of statistical inference …

Early life conditions have been linked to various domains of later life health, including cardiovascular outcomes … health are related to hypertension, although there is cross country heterogeneity in these effects. I account for potential … omitted variable bias by using aggregate measures of public health at birth, which are plausibly exogenous to the individual …

income and health poverty. The correlation between income and poverty is examined using the Receiver Operating …

When measuring health inequality using ordinal data, analysts typically must choose between indices specifically based …

While much is now known about the effects of physical health shocks to pregnant women on the outcomes of the in …