We show that the well-known positive association between health and income in adulthood has antecedents in childhood …. Using the National Health Interview Surveys, the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, and the National Health and Nutrition … Examination Survey, we find that children's health is positively related to household income. The relationship between household …

birth cohorts observed from 1975 to 1995. We assume that health status is determined by social status, defined as income … relative to the mean income of a reference group. When reference groups are not observed, health is a function of income whose …

We use data from the Whitehall II study to examine the potential role played by early-life health and circumstances in … determining health and employment status in middle and older ages. The population from which the Whitehall II cohort was drawn …-life conditions based on the Whitehall II cohort provide a lower bound on the effect of early-life circumstances on adult health and …

We examine the consequences of childhood health for economic and health outcomes in adulthood, using height as a marker … of health in childhood. After reviewing previous evidence, we present a conceptual framework that highlights data … height and a range of outcomes, including schooling, employment, earnings, health and cognitive ability, using data collected …

This paper reexamines differences found between income gradients in American and English children's health, in results … the same time period, the income gradient in children's health increases with age by the same amount in the two countries …. In addition, we find that Currie, Shields and Wheatley Price's measures of chronic conditions from the Health Survey of …

Understanding whether the gradient in children's health becomes steeper with age is an important first step in … uncovering the mechanisms that connect economic and health status, and in recommending sensible interventions to protect children …'s health. To that end, this paper examines why two sets of authors, Chen et al (2006) and Case et al (2002), using data from …

Women have worse self-rated health and more hospitalization episodes than men from early adolescence to late middle age …, but are less likely to die at each age. We use 14 years of data from the U.S. National Health Interview Survey to examine … this paradox. Our results indicate that the difference in self-assessed health between women and men can be entirely …

We quantify the lasting effects of childhood health and economic circumstances on adult health and earnings, using data …, educations and social status, that children who experience poor health have significantly lower educational attainment, and … significantly poorer health and lower earnings on average as adults. Childhood factors appear to operate largely through their …