olds, we estimate similar health gradients in income and wealth in both countries, but for 70-80 year old, we find no … benefits are largely flat and independent of past income and hence past health during the working years. Finally, we report … income gradient in UK. Standard behavioral risk factors (work, marriage, obesity, exercise, and smoking) almost fully explain …

are in much worse health than those at the top. This health gradient exists whether education, income, or financial wealth …, feedbacks from new health events to household income are one of the reasons that underlie the strength of the income gradient …Looking across many diseases, average health among mature men is much worse in America compared to England. Second …

Parents invest in their children's human capital in several ways. We investigate the extent to which the levels and …. We test the hypothesis of parent-child time as a form of human capital investment in children using a propensity score …

ongoing discussion of the relationship between life satisfaction and income. The panel property of the data makes it possible … to study also the impact on satisfaction from income changes as well as the impact from acceleration in income and … the survey to the next. We find a strong impact from the level of income in all countries, an impact from change and …

To analyze the effect of health on work, many studies use a simple self-assessed health measure based upon a question … such as do you have an impairment or health problem limiting the kind or amount of work you can do? A possible drawback of … don't work, non-working respondents may classify a given health problem as a more serious work limitation than working …

This paper estimates the extent to which childhood circumstances contribute to health inequality in old age and … evaluates the importance of major domains of childhood circumstances to health inequalities in the USA and China. We link two … waves of the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) in 2013 and 2015 with the newly released 2014 Life …

This study of the emergence of inequality during the early years is based upon a comparative analysis of children at … Canada. Second, large differences in cognitive outcomes exist in all countries between children from disadvantaged … which children at the top of the SES distribution out-perform those in the middle. Third, disparities in social and …

The Irish-born population in England is in worse health than both the native population and the Irish population in … Ireland, however, are healthier than the English population. The substantial Irish health penalty arises principally for … cohorts born between 1920 and 1960. This paper attempts to understand the processes that generated this migrant health pattern …