The impact of socio-economic status on health has been widely recognized, but the independent impact of social status … alone on health remains inconclusive. We approach this challenge by exploiting a natural experiment in which subjects … nominated for or successfully elected to the Chinese Academy of Science or of Engineering. Being elected as an academician in …

The impact of socio-economic status on health has been widely recognized, but the independent impact of social status … alone on health remains inconclusive. We approach this challenge by exploiting a natural experiment in which subjects … nominated for or successfully elected to the Chinese Academy of Science or of Engineering. Being elected as an academician in …

shrinkage ; health ; China …Adult height, as a marker of childhood health, has recently become a focus in understanding the relationship between … childhood health and health outcomes at older ages. However, measured height of the older individuals is contaminated by height …

Adult height, as a marker of childhood health, has recently become a focus in understanding the relationship between … childhood health and health outcomes at older ages. However, measured height of the older individuals is contaminated by height … shrinkage from aging. Height shrinkage, in turn may be correlated with health conditions and socio-economic status from …

The impact of socio-economic status on health has been widely recognized, but the independent impact of social status … alone on health remains inconclusive. We approach this challenge by exploiting a natural experiment in which subjects … nominated for or successfully elected to the Chinese Academy of Science or of Engineering. Being elected as an academician in …

China's distinctive demographic landscape, early retirement policies, and deeply ingrained gender norms provide a … China Family Panel Studies and leveraging the variation around the pensionable age cutoff, we find substantial increases in … multiple dimensions of subjective well-being and objective health behaviors, laying bare gender disparities in health …

Understanding of the substantial disparity in health between low and high socioeconomic status (SES) groups is hampered … disparities in health by SES. In our model, lifestyle factors, working conditions, retirement, living conditions and curative care … are mechanisms through which SES, health and mortality are related. Our model predicts a widening and possibly a …

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 …

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 …

health and poverty in Australian families. Taking advantage of panel data, the modelling approach used in this study allows a … better estimation of the causal relationship between health and poverty. The results indicate that the causality between … health and poverty runs both ways and the relationship is confounded by unobserved heterogeneity. In particular, it is found …