Individuals' socioeconomic status (SES) is positively correlated with their health status. While the existence of this … insights on the causal structure of the health-SES nexus. We introduce some methodological refinements and integrate … retrospective survey data on early childhood circumstances into this framework. We confirm that childhood health has lasting …

We test whether adverse childhood experiences - exposure to parental maltreatment and its indirect effect on health … estimated associations are significantly reduced in magnitude when controlling for physical or mental health, suggesting that … adolescent health could be one important pathway via which maltreatment affects adulthood personality. Maltreatment experiences …

Using Demographic and Health Surveys, government statistics, and field observations I examine trends in infant and … child health in Uzbekistan, Kazakstan and the Kyrgyz Republic. Health indicators (anemia and marked low weight for age) for … compromised child health varies by ethnicity, but the effect is dramatically lessened by the introduction of household and …

We use a unique data set of linked birth records from Florida to analyze the intergenerational transmission of health … grandmother fixed effects. The significant role of both maternal and paternal health at birth in explaining offspring health at …

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 ability of older respondents to remember specific health problems that they …