| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w9788 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 9788 |
| From Cradle to Grave? The Lasting Impact of Childhood Health and Circumstance | |
| Anne Case; Angela Fertig; Christina Paxson | |
| 发表日期 | 2003-06-23 |
| 出版年 | 2003 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | We quantify the lasting effects of childhood health and economic circumstances on adult health and earnings, using data from a birth cohort that has been followed from birth into middle age. We find, controlling for parents' incomes, educations and social status, that children who experience poor health have significantly lower educational attainment, and significantly poorer health and lower earnings on average as adults. Childhood factors appear to operate largely through their effects on educational attainment and initial adult health. Taken together with earlier findings that poorer children enter adulthood in worse health and with less education than wealthier children, these results indicate that a key determinant of health in adulthood is economic status in childhood rather than economic status in adulthood. Overall, our findings suggest more attention be paid to health as a potential mechanism through which intergenerational transmission of poverty takes place: cohort members born into poorer families experienced poorer childhood health, lower investments in human capital and poorer health in early adulthood, all of which are associated with lower earnings in middle age -- the years in which they themselves become parents. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health ; Microeconomics ; Households and Firms |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w9788 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/567412 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Anne Case,Angela Fertig,Christina Paxson. From Cradle to Grave? The Lasting Impact of Childhood Health and Circumstance. 2003. |
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| w9788.pdf（332KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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