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The impact of childhood health on adult labor market outcomes

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.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 4274

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Health: General
Labor and Demographic Economics: General
Thema
Childhood health
labor market outcomes
Gesundheit
Kinder
Lohn
Sozialer Status
Irland

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Smith, James P.
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2009

Handle
URN
urn:nbn:de:101:1-2009082030
Letzte Aktualisierung
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Smith, James P.
  • Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Entstanden

  • 2009

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