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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.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 4274

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

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Smith, James P.
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
(where)
Bonn
(when)
2009

Handle
URN
urn:nbn:de:101:1-2009082030
Last update
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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

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

Time of origin

  • 2009

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