Health plays an important role in the labor market. Human capital accumulation, occupational choice, hours, wages …, turnover, and retirement are all both causes and consequences of health. Better health leads to higher productivity, and … healthy individuals can spend more time on the labor market. Yet, at the same time, health itself is also a function of past …

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 … association between parental loss during childhood and lower adult income, educational attainment, and worse health. This analysis …