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Re-Constructing Childhood Health Histories

Smith, James P. - 2009

This paper provides evidence about the quality of retrospective childhood health histories given to respondents in the HRS and the PSID. Even though information on early life health events is critical, there is legitimate skepticism about the ability of older respondents to remember specific...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012764648

Re-Constructing Childhood Health Histories

Smith, James P. - 2009

This paper provides evidence about the quality of retrospective childhood health histories given to respondents in the Health and Retirement Survey and the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. Even though information on early life health events is critical, there is legitimate skepticism about the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014210170

Childhood Health and Differences in Late-Life Health Outcomes between England and the United States

Banks, James W.; Oldfield, Zoë; Smith, James P. - 2011

In this paper the authors examine the link between retrospectively reported measures of childhood health and the prevalence of various major and minor diseases at older ages. Their analysis is based on comparable retrospective questionnaires placed in the Health and Retirement Study and the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014177908

Childhood Health and Differences in Late-Life Health Outcomes between England and the United States

Banks, James W. - 2011

In this paper we examine the link between retrospectively reported measures of childhood health and the prevalence of various major and minor diseases at older ages. Our analysis is based on comparable retrospective questionnaires placed in the Health and Retirement Study and the English...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124540

Childhood health and differences in late-life health outcomes between England and the United States

Banks, James; Oldfield, Zoë; Smith, James P. - In: Investigations in the economics of aging, (pp. 321-339). 2012

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009724875

Childhood health and differences in late-life health outcomes between England and the United States

Banks, James; Oldfield, Zoë; Smith, James P. - 2011

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009158063

Childhood Health and Differences in Late-Life Health Outcomes Between England and the United States

Banks, James - 2011

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461561

Free GP care and psychological health : quasi-experimental evidence from Ireland

Ma, Yuanyuan; Nolan, Anne; Smith, James P. - In: Journal of health economics 72 (2020), pp. 1-15

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Gender differences in cognition in China and reasons for change over time : evidence from CHARLS

Lei, Xiaoyan; Smith, James P.; Sun, Xiaoting; Zhao, Yaohui - 2013

and are nationally representative of the Chinese population in this age span. Our measures of cognition in CHARLS relies … on two measures that proxy for different dimensions of adult cognition - episodic memory and intact mental status. We … people. These gender differences in cognition are especially concentrated in the older age groups and poorer communities …

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Cognition and economic outcomes in the health and retirement survey

MacArdle, John J.; Smith, James P.; Willis, Robert - 2009

Dimensions of cognitive skills are potentially important but often neglected determinants of the central economic outcomes that shape overall well-being over the life course. There exists enormous variation among households in their rates of wealth accumulation, their holdings of financial...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269015