suggesting that health deficits in old age are up to 40 percent higher for children suffering from hunger. The wedge of health … waves of the Survey of Health, Aging, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) dataset and construct a health deficit index. Results … from log-linear regressions suggest that, on average, elderly European men and women developed about 20 percent more health …

children experienced a health shock at different ages. We show that these families have very similar characteristics and were …We provide novel evidence on the impact of a child's health shock on parental labor market outcomes. To identify the … timing of the health shock. We do this by comparing parents across families in similar parental and child age cohorts whose …

children experienced a health shock at different ages. We show that these families have very similar characteristics and were …We provide novel evidence on the impact of a child's health shock on parental labor market outcomes. To identify the … timing of the health shock. We do this by comparing parents across families in similar parental and child age cohorts whose …

understandinghow these shocks can affect the educational attainment, adult health, and adult income of the children who lived through … Sweden, and (3) losing a parent during the childhood years.Since they alter the environment in which children develop, these …, education, or health. Through the study of the case of polio, this thesis contributes to our understanding of scarring effects …

explaining health at older ages. In particular, we investigate the role of exposure to infectious diseases and economic … conditions during infancy and childhood, as well as the effect of current health care facilities. Specific attention is paid to …