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 …

Emergency Transportation System (NETS) on neonatal and infant mortality and long-term impairments. We utilize gradual expansion …, using changing distance as an instrument. Improving access to delivering in a city with a NICU decreases 0-6-day mortality …

health, self-rated health to mortality. Our analytic sample includes about 8,000 Chinese persons age above 60. Using the …This paper examines the extent to which childhood circumstances contribute to health inequality in old age and how the … contributions may vary across key dimensions of health. We link the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) in 2013 …

positive selection on health from high infant mortality rates during this period (18 percent), our findings suggest a strong … during the pandemic are shorter as child/teenagers, less educated, and more likely to have serious health problems, including …

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 …

) 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 …

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 …