The Impact of Childhood Health on Adult Labor Market Outcomes.

TitleThe Impact of Childhood Health on Adult Labor Market Outcomes.
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2009
AuthorsSmith, JP
JournalRev Econ Stat
Volume91
Issue3
Pagination478-489
Date Published2009 Sep 01
ISSN Number0034-6535
Abstract

This paper examines impacts of childhood health on SES outcomes observed during adulthood-levels and trajectories of education, family income, household wealth, individual earnings and labor supply. The analysis is conducted using data that collects these SES measures in a panel who were originally children and who are now well into their adult years. Since all siblings are in the panel, one can control for unmeasured family and neighborhood background effects. With the exception of education, poor childhood health has a quantitatively large effect on all these outcomes. Moreover, these estimated effects are larger when unobserved family effects are controlled. (JEL codes; I, J).

URLhttp://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/rest.91.3.478
DOI10.1162/rest.91.3.478
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23585697?dopt=Abstract

Endnote Keywords

childhood health

Endnote ID

25350

Alternate JournalRev Econ Stat
Citation Key7419
PubMed ID23585697
PubMed Central IDPMC3625038
Grant ListP01 AG008291 / AG / NIA NIH HHS / United States
P01 AG029409 / AG / NIA NIH HHS / United States
R37 AG025529 / AG / NIA NIH HHS / United States