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 …

Based on the sample of The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health), we investigate the … formation of health capital and the role played by genetic endowments, parental SES, and education. To measure genetic … health and health behaviors for subjects with high parental socioeconomic status (SES). These effects are only partially …

This paper investigates the robustness of recent findings on the effect of parental background on child health. We are … particularly concerned with the extent to which their finding that income effects on child health are the result of spurious … and child health are correlated with some common unobservable (say, low parental time preference) then least squares …