TY - JOUR T1 - Childhood health and labor market inequality over the life course. JF - J Health Soc Behav Y1 - 2011 A1 - Steven A Haas A1 - M. Maria Glymour A1 - Lisa F Berkman KW - Child KW - Employment KW - Female KW - Health Status KW - Humans KW - Income KW - Male KW - Middle Aged KW - Models, Econometric KW - Retirement KW - Social Class KW - Social Security KW - Socioeconomic factors KW - United States AB -

The authors use data from the Health and Retirement Study's Earnings Benefit File, which links Health and Retirement Study to Social Security Administration records, to estimate the impact of childhood health on earnings curves between the ages of 25 and 50 years. They also investigate the extent to which diminished educational attainment, earlier onset of chronic health conditions, and labor force participation mediate this relationship. Those who experience poor childhood health have substantially diminished labor market earnings over the work career. For men, earnings differentials grow larger over the early to middle career and then slow down and begin to converge as they near 50 years of age. For women, earnings differentials emerge later in the career and show no evidence of convergence. Part of the child health earnings differential is accounted for by selection into diminished educational attainment, the earlier onset of chronic disease in adulthood, and, particularly for men, labor force participation.

PB - 52 VL - 52 IS - 3 N1 - Haas, Steven A Glymour, M Maria Berkman, Lisa F AG023399/AG/NIA NIH HHS/United States Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't United States Journal of health and social behavior J Health Soc Behav. 2011;52(3):298-313. doi: 10.1177/0022146511410431. U1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21896684?dopt=Abstract U3 - 21896684 U4 - chronic Disease/childhood health/labor Force Participation/labor market earnings/labor market earnings/earnings curves/earnings curves ER -