Associations of childhood health and financial situation with quality of life after retirement: Regional variation across Europe

Claudia Börnhorst, Dörte Heger () and Anne Mensen

No 795, Ruhr Economic Papers from RWI - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung, Ruhr-University Bochum, TU Dortmund University, University of Duisburg-Essen

Abstract: Many studies have shown that childhood circumstances can have long term consequences that persist until old age. To better understand the transmission of early life circumstances, this paper analyses the effects of health and financial situation during childhood on quality of life after retirement as well as the mediating role of later life health, educational level, and income in this association. Moreover, this study is the first to compare these pathways across European regions. The analyses are based on data of 13,092 retirees aged > 60 and

Keywords: early life circumstances; life course epidemiology; retirement phase; quality of life; path analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H75 I31 J14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.4419/86788923

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