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The impact of childhood health on adult labor market outcomes
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Date Issued
2008-04-21
Date Available
2010-04-16T15:49:10Z
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.
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Not applicable
Type of Material
Working Paper
Publisher
University College Dublin. Geary Institute
Series
UCD Geary Institute Discussion Paper Series
WP/14/2008
Classification
I10
J00
Subject – LCSH
Children--Health and hygiene
Poor--Economic conditions
Social status--Health aspects
Language
English
Status of Item
Not peer reviewed
This item is made available under a Creative Commons License
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