The Impact of Childhood Health on Adult Labor Market Outcomes

James Smith

The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2009, vol. 91, issue 3, 478-489

Abstract: This paper examines impacts of childhood health on socioeconomic status (SES) outcomes observed during adulthood: levels and trajectories of education, family income, household wealth, individual earnings, and labor supply. The analysis is conducted using panel data that collect these SES measures using a sample who were originally children and are now well into their adult years. Since all siblings are in the panel, unmeasured family and neighborhood background effects can be controlled for. With the exception of education, poor childhood health has a quantitatively large effect on all of these outcomes. Moreover, these estimated effects are larger when unobserved family effects are controlled. Copyright by the President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Date: 2009
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (186)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/rest.91.3.478 link to full text (application/pdf)
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.

Related works:
Working Paper: The Impact of Childhood Health on Adult Labor Market Outcomes (2009)
Working Paper: The Impact of Childhood Health on Adult Labor Market Outcomes (2008)
Working Paper: The Impact of Childhood Health on Adult Labor Market Outcomes (2005)
Working Paper: The Impact of Childhood Health on Adult Labor Market Outcomes (2005)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:tpr:restat:v:91:y:2009:i:3:p:478-489

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
https://mitpressjour ... rnal/?issn=0034-6535

Access Statistics for this article

The Review of Economics and Statistics is currently edited by Pierre Azoulay, Olivier Coibion, Will Dobbie, Raymond Fisman, Benjamin R. Handel, Brian A. Jacob, Kareen Rozen, Xiaoxia Shi, Tavneet Suri and Yi Xu

More articles in The Review of Economics and Statistics from MIT Press
Bibliographic data for series maintained by The MIT Press ().