Using data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe, this paper provides empirical evidence for the … Netherlands and Spain on the associations between individuals’ early life circumstances—measured by health and socioeconomic … status (SES) during childhood—educational attainment, and later life health and employment (at ages 50–64). We find that …

are drawn from the new Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE).The empirical analysis shows that health … is multi-dimensional, in the sense that different health indicators have their own significant impact on individuals …' participation decisions.Health effects differ markedly between countries.A counterfactual exercise shows that improved health …

$2 a day poverty headcount measure to changes in mean income and inequality significantly decreases with initial … inequality and the ratio poverty line over mean income - taken as proxies for the initial density of income near the poverty line ….Variations in these proxies account for the large crossregional differences in the income elasticity of poverty during the 1980s and …