and disease outcomes are a powerful measure to indicate social influences on health and illness. But they might only be a … health interact. …

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 …

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 …

the effects of air quality on children's health. The IV estimates show that the respiratory illness health care visit rate …. Importantly, by linking the health care data to detailed records of parental background characteristics, we show that children … outpatient records for the universe of children in Sweden during a six-year period to provide instrumental variable estimates of …

Prenatal exposure to adverse conditions is known to affect health throughout the life span. It has also been shown that … health is unevenly distributed at advanced ages. This chapter investigates whether health inequalities at old age may be … shocks in GDP that occurred while the respondents were still in utero affect four important dimensions of later-life health …

Obesity in children in many developing countries has increased substantially over the last several decades. This change … has implications for population health and human capital due to the strong persistence in weight through adulthood and the … health status during early childhood may be more efficient and equitable due to accumulation of effects. Thus, examining the …