-term outcomes, including lifetime income, health, cognitive skills, and education. Our results show that the school lunch program … percent greater life-time earnings. In addition, we find the effect to be greater for pupils that were exposed at earlier ages … attainment and health and these effects can explain a large part of the return to school lunches. …

the military, we find that the crude obesity penalty in earnings, which amounts to about 18 percent, is linked to supply …-side characteristics that are associated with both earnings and obesity. In particular, we show that the penalty reflects negative …

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 … during the mandatory military enlistment tests at age 18, which we have further linked to register data on adult earnings. We …

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 …

the military, we find that the crude obesity penalty in earnings, which amounts to about 18 percent, is linked to supply …-side characteristics that are associated with both earnings and obesity. In particular, we show that the penalty reflects negative …

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 … during the mandatory military enlistment tests at age 18, which we have further linked to register data on adult earnings. We …

-term outcomes, including lifetime income, health, cognitive skills, and education. Our results show that the school lunch program … percent greater life-time earnings. In addition, we find the effect to be greater for pupils that were exposed at earlier ages … attainment and health and these effects can explain a large part of the return to school lunches. …

-term outcomes, including lifetime income, health, cognitive skills, and education. Our results show that the school lunch program … percent greater life-time earnings. In addition, we find the effect to be greater for pupils that were exposed at earlier ages … attainment and health and these effects can explain a large part of the return to school lunches …