We investigate how early life circumstances - childhood health and socioeconomic status (SES) - are associated with … Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe, which contains retrospective information on early life circumstances and … over their working life. We also find a smaller, positive long-term association between childhood health and lifetime …

life", such as health and equality of opportunity. However, per capita GDP has the virtues of easy interpretation and can … preserves the advantages of per capita GDP, but also includes health and equality. We propose a new parsimonious indicator to …

insurance (SSDI). Health affects individuals' productivity, SSDI access, disutility from work, mortality, and medical expenses …Using a dynamic panel approach, we provide empirical evidence that negative health shocks reduce earnings. The effect … health. We build a dynamic, general equilibrium, life cycle model that is consistent with these findings. In the model …

life," such as health and equality of opportunity. However, per capita GDP has the virtues of easy interpretation and can … preserves the advantages of per capita GDP, but also includes health and equality. We propose a new parsimonious indicator to …

consumption in a world with mortality risk to data describing the life-cycle earnings and survival probabilities of Black and … white males born between 1900 and 1970. We find that convergence in Black and white mortality rates led to a 50% reduction …