We investigate long-run effects of episodes of hunger experienced as a child on health status and behavioral outcomes … suggest that individual behavior is a pathway between early life shocks and adult health: We find that those who experienced …-documented biological channel from early life circumstances to adult health, there is also a behavioral pathway. …

This paper examines impacts of childhood health on SES outcomes observed during adulthood- levels and trajectories of … collects these SES measures in a panel who were originally children and who are now well into their adult years. Since all … education, poor childhood health has a quantitatively large effect on all these outcomes. Moreover, these estimated effects are …

In this paper, we model the consequences of childhood health on adult health and socioeconomic status outcomes in China … using a new sample of middle aged and older Chinese respondents. Modeled after the American Health and Retirement Survey …. Childhood health in CHARLS relies on two measures that proxy for different dimensions of health during the childhood years. The …