This paper examines impacts of childhood health on SES outcomes observed during adulthood- levels and trajectories of … education, poor childhood health has a quantitatively large effect on all these outcomes. Moreover, these estimated effects are …

This paper examines impacts of childhood health on SES outcomes observed during adulthood-levels and trajectories of … education, poor childhood health has a quantitatively large effect on all these outcomes. Moreover, these estimated effects are … larger when unobserved family effects are controlled. -- Childhood health ; labor market outcomes …

response scales across countries, partly related to social insurance generosity and employment protection. Furthermore, we find …To analyze the effect of health on work, many studies use a simple self-assessed health measure based upon a question … such as "do you have an impairment or health problem limiting the kind or amount of work you can do?" A possible drawback …

olds, we estimate similar health gradients in income and wealth in both countries, but for 70-80 year old, we find no … benefits are largely flat and independent of past income and hence past health during the working years. Finally, we report … experienced during the prior ten year period. -- Health …

health outcomes, and their link to socioeconomic factors, at older ages. Since the data are at a comparatively young stage … the most common. What is immediately apparent as we get better measures is that health differences between countries … measures utilize doctor diagnosed conditions or biomarker-based indicators of disease and poor health. But one key finding …