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 …

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 …

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 …