Frijters, Paul; Shields, Michael A.; Hatton, Timothy J.; … - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
We study the importance of childhood socioeconomic conditions in explaining differences inlife expectancy using data … from a sample of around 5,000 children collected in the UK in1937-39, who have been traced through official death records …. Ourresults confirm that childhood conditions such as household income and the quality of thehome environment are significant …