We investigate the relationship between college openings, college attainment, and health behaviors and outcomes later … in life. Though a large prior literature attempts to isolate the causal effect of education on health via instrumental … a state contributes to higher college attainment and better health later in life. Using 1980-2015 Census and American …

on the gender-specific health outcome of respondents aged 60+ at follow-up over a period of 13 years (for western Germany … analysed self-rated general health as well as the self-reported absence and prevalence of specific diseases which are directly …-up in order to control for selection effects to the health outcome. The analysis was separated by sex to account for gender …

Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we investigated the role of childbearing history in later life health … better self-rated health in Western German mothers and fathers aged 50+, but its relationship with Eastern German women …'s physical health and survival is negative. Early motherhood is paralleled by poorer physical health in West Germany, whereas …

With periodic recessions and the rising costs of health care, it is important to know how labor market participation … and insecurity affects health outcomes. Yet, this line of research faces a number of methodological challenges which this … market shocks during severe recessions affect men's body mass index (BMI) and health-related behaviors. We use growth curve …

Childhood circumstances may impact senior health, prompting this study to introduce novel machine learning methods to … assess their individual and collective contributions to health inequality in old age. Using the US Health and Retirement … Study (HRS) and the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS), we analyzed health outcomes of American and …

Childhood circumstances may impact senior health, prompting this study to introduce novel machine learning methods to … assess their individual and collective contributions to health inequality in old age. Using the US Health and Retirement … Study (HRS) and the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS), we analyzed health outcomes of American and …

of later-life cognitive function. Leveraging a nationally representative sample of older Americans from the Health and ….0-7.0% after further controlling for comprehensive socioeconomic and health factors over the life course, and are robust to the …, and early-life environments to promote health equity over the life course. …