Individuals' socioeconomic status (SES) is positively correlated with their health status. While the existence of this … insights on the causal structure of the health-SES nexus. We introduce some methodological refinements and integrate … retrospective survey data on early childhood circumstances into this framework. We confirm that childhood health has lasting …

income and parental education) remain good predictors of well-being over 50 years later. In terms of the proximal covariates …, mental health and social participation are the strongest predictors of both measures of well-being in older age. However …

dependency rates compared to the surrounding cohorts. The results indicate that investments in early-life health have far …-reaching effects on economic outcomes in later life. -- Infant health ; education ; earnings ; alcohol policy …

particularly concerned with the extent to which their finding that income effects on child health are the result of spurious … approach. Our results suggest that the income effects observed in the data are spurious. -- child health ; intergenerational …This paper investigates the robustness of recent findings on the effect of parental background on child health. We are …