Whereas a large literature has shown the importance of early life health for adult socioeconomic outcomes, there is … little evidence on the importance of adolescent health. We contribute to the literature by studying the impact of adolescent … health status on adult labor market outcomes using a unique and large-scale dataset covering almost the entire population of …

We study the effect of obesity on wages and employment, using data from the British NCDS. The results show a …

We study the effect of obesity on wages and employment, using data from the British NCDS. The results show a …

information on their health status at the age of 18 and later educational attainment, we investigate whether educational … attainment is related to early health status within monozygotic twin pairs. In general, we obtain no indication of this being so …. As a result, we find little evidence that early health differences between twins would bias the estimates of the returns …

We study the relationship between early life health and adult earnings using a unique dataset that covers almost the … entire population of Swedish males born between 1950 and 1970. The health information is obtained from medical examinations …

's cognitive skills, non-cognitive skills, and health. Our results show that greater parental education increases children …'s cognitive and non-cognitive skills, as well as their health. These results suggest that the effect of parents' education on … children's education may work partly through the positive effect that parental education has on children's skills and health. …

In this paper, we estimate socioeconomic heterogeneity in the effect of unexpected health shocks on labor market … heterogeneity in the effects, in which individuals with a low education level suffer relatively more from a given health shock …. These results hold across a wide range of different types of health shocks and become more pronounced with age. Our results …

In this paper, we test for the existence of socioeconomic heterogeneity in the effect of health shocks on labor market … hospitalizations as a measure of health shocks. Our results suggest large heterogeneity in the effects, where low educated individuals … suffer relatively more from a given health shock. This result holds across a wide range of different health shocks and our …