This paper forecasts the life-cycle treatment effects on health of a high-quality early childhood program. Our …

We systematically review the literature linking health to economic activity, particularly education and labor market … outcomes, over the lifecycle. In the first part, we review studies that link childhood health to later-life outcomes. The main … themes we focus on are in-utero exposures, birthweight, physical health and nutrition, mental health, and the environment. In …

This paper forecasts the life-cycle treatment effects on health of a high-quality early childhood program. Our …

This paper forecasts the life-cycle treatment effects on health of a high-quality early childhood program. Our …

How do labor market and health outcomes interact over the life cycle in a country characterized by a large informal … sector and strong inequalities? To quantify the effects of bad health on labor market trajectories, wealth, and consumption … counterfactual experiments and show that health shocks have an important impact on wealth and consumption. The channel through which …

by the fetal origins hypothesis. We argue that while the conventional health capital model is irreconcilable with fetal … origins of late-in-life health outcomes, the more recent health deficit model can generate shock amplification consistent with … the hypothesis. In order to discuss human health over the life cycle from conception to death, we develop a theory of …

We construct a health measurement model which combines panel data on self-reported health with a rich set of health … measures from administrative medical records. Our estimated health model allows us to predict health status for the population … at large. We account both for unobserved heterogeneity and for the persistence in unobserved health shocks. To account …