health outcomes after age fifty. Having lived in a children s home, in a foster family, or having suffered a period of hunger …In this paper we address the long-run effects of childhood shocks on health in late adulthood. Applying a life … and later health into a-priori unknown groups, we show that some adverse shocks have opposite effects for specific groups. …

of time an individual remains in good health. It employs an objective measure of physical health, the Physical and Mental … Health Problems, Illnesses and Disabilities (PMID) measure in the ECHP dataset, for 13 European countries, for the years 1994 …-2002. The results show that socioeconomic status does affect the likelihood of individuals entering bad health. In particular …

This paper examines whether maternity leave policies have a causal effect on women's mental health in old age. We link … data for women aged 50 and above from eight countries in the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) to …

This paper examines whether maternity leave policies have a causal effect on women's mental health in old age. We link … data for women aged 50 and above from eight countries in the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) to …

This paper estimates the causal effect of being born to a teenage mother on children's outcomes, exploiting compulsory … ; education ; fertility ; children ; instrumental variables ; compulsory schooling laws …

This paper estimates the causal effect of being born to a teenage mother on children's outcomes, exploiting compulsory …

benefits, particularly for children from disadvantaged backgrounds, is its potential to mitigate educational inequality … children who attended such programmes no better off academically than those who did not. This paper studies the relationship …