We provide novel evidence on the impact of a child's health shock on parental labor market outcomes. To identify the … timing of the health shock. We do this by comparing parents across families in similar parental and child age cohorts whose … children experienced a health shock at different ages. We show that these families have very similar characteristics and were …

We provide novel evidence on the impact of a child's health shock on parental labor market outcomes. To identify the … timing of the health shock. We do this by comparing parents across families in similar parental and child age cohorts whose … children experienced a health shock at different ages. We show that these families have very similar characteristics and were …

understandinghow these shocks can affect the educational attainment, adult health, and adult income of the children who lived through … association between parental loss during childhood and lower adult income, educational attainment, and worse health. This analysis … to either a polio outbreak, or to introduction of the vaccine against the disease, had long-term impacts on adult income …

Numerous studies report that early childhood biological stress impairs health in later adulthood. Overwhelmingly these … studies are based on modern data, when health conditions are quite good by historical standards. Potentially much can be …

We investigate how early life circumstances - childhood health and socioeconomic status (SES) - are associated with … Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe, which contains retrospective information on early life circumstances and … over their working life. We also find a smaller, positive long-term association between childhood health and lifetime …