We study the relationship between early life health and adult earnings using a unique dataset that covers almost the … entire population of Swedish males born between 1950 and 1970. The health information is obtained from medical examinations …

A large literature documents that childhood health shocks have lasting negative consequences for adult outcomes. This … occupational choices, which reflect their comparative advantage. We merge records on children hospitalized with poliomyelitis …

, evidence from low- and middle-income countries is scarce. In this study, we examined the association of early life risk factors … with frailty among older adults using a large, nationally representative cohort of community-dwelling Chinese sample. 6 …,806 participants aged ≥60 years from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study were included. We measured 13 risk factors in …

This paper examines the extent to which childhood circumstances contribute to health inequality in old age and how the … contributions may vary across key dimensions of health. We link the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) in 2013 … and 2015 with its Life History Survey in 2014 to quantify health inequality due to childhood circumstances for which they …

the impact of the Great Chinese Famine (1959-1961) on the health of older adults to perform a meta-analysis and discuss …This paper reviews the latest evidence of the effects of early life circumstances on old-age health, distinguishing in … how various circumstances may coalesce and manifest in shaping long-term health …

an integrated developmental approach to child and adult health that considers the costs and benefits of interventions … over the life cycle. We suggest policies to promote child health which are currently outside the boundaries of conventional …

model that includes unscheduled hospitalizations as a measure for unanticipated health shocks and estimate the model on data … from the British National Child Development Study (NCDS). We show that such health shocks increase the likelihood of an … onset of a disability by around 138%. However, health shocks are relatively rare events and therefore the larger part of …

on the health of young adults. We find that an additional $100 in the average annual EITC exposure between ages 0 and 18 …The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) is a central component of the U.S. safety net, benefiting about 27 million families … increases the likelihood of reporting very good or excellent health by 2.7 percentage points and decreases the likelihood of …

. Evidence on intervening pathways suggests that health rather than schooling is the most important channel in connecting early …

infant health. To identify the causal effect, we exploit the time and geographical variations in the adoption of the Act …