influenza suffered from worse adult health and, for males, also increased mortality at old ages, particularly in cancer. Their … elevated health risks in later life led to a growing interest into whether fetal exposure to other – less severe - diseases … could cause health problems as well. Epidemiological studies of the fetal origins of later life health that followed found …

parental resources during our upbringing that can be influenced by public policy? We study the formation of adult health and … mortality using data on about 21,000 adoptees born between 1940 and 1967. The data include detailed information on both … biological and adopting parents. We find that the health of the biological parents affects the health of their adopted children …

with mortality. This paper studies the effects of income on health and mortality, using only the part of income variation …A vast literature has established a strong positive association of income with health status and a negative association … causally generates good health and that this effect is of similar magnitude as when traditional estimation techniques are used …

the lifecycle, education, social benefits take-up, and adult mortality. For this purpose, we have linked a unique dataset … that lower birth weight children are more likely to avail of social insurance programs such as unemployment and sickness … insurance and that birth weight matters for adult mortality. We supplement our main analysis with more recent data, which …

For all climatic regions, mortality due to cold exceeds mortality due to heat. We examine whether cold …-related mortality in adulthood varies positively with unusually benign ambient temperature during gestation, using data on over 13 … rate of mortality due to cold-related IHD. However, we do not find such a relation for cold-related stroke mortality …

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

) mortality later in life. In addition, we examine to what extent these long-run effects run by way of cognitive ability and … (across the full range) and CV mortality rate later in life is significantly stronger if the individual is born in a recession …

We explore how involuntary and voluntary exits from self-employment affect life and health satisfaction. To that end …-employment exit) brings small improvements in health and life satisfaction, the negative psychological costs of business failure (i ….e., switching from self-employment to unemployment) are substantial and exceed the costs of involuntarily losing a salaried job (i …

We explore how involuntary and voluntary exits from self-employment affect life and health satisfaction. To that end …-employment exit) brings small improvements in health and life satisfaction, the negative psychological costs of business failure (i ….e., switching from self-employment to unemployment) are substantial and exceed the costs of involuntarily losing a salaried job (i …