Long-Run Effects of Childhood Shocks on Health in Late Adulthood: Evidence from the Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe

Nicole Halmdienst () and Rudolf Winter-Ebmer
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Nicole Halmdienst: Department of Economics, University of Linz, Austria

No 2013-02, Economics working papers from Department of Economics, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria

Abstract: In this paper we address the long-run effects of childhood shocks on health in late adulthood. Applying a life-course approach and data from SHARE we estimate direct and indirect effects of shocks like relocation, dispossession, or hunger on health outcomes after age fifty. Having lived in a children’s home, in a foster family, or having suffered a period of hunger turn out to be the most detrimental. Using a finite mixture model, which allows to classify the associations between shocks and later health into a-priori unknown groups, we show that some adverse shocks have opposite effects for specific groups.

Keywords: Early life experience; health; Europe (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I12 J1 J13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 23 pages
Date: 2013-01
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-age, nep-dem and nep-hea
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