Do early life and contemporaneous macroconditions explain health at older ages?
研究了早期生活（如婴儿期疾病暴露）和同期宏观条件（如医疗设施）对老年人健康的影响，发现荷兰老年人功能限制在1990年代增加，部分原因是医院护理受限。
This paper presents an approach that assesses the role of early life and contemporaneous macroconditions in explaining health at older ages. In particular, we investigate the role of exposure to diseases and economic conditions during infancy and childhood, as well as the effect of current health care facilities. Specific attention is paid to the impact of unobserved heterogeneity, selective attrition, and omitted relevant macrovariables. We apply our approach to self-reports on functional limitations of Dutch older individuals. The prevalence of functional limitations is found to increase in the 1990s, in part due to restricted access to hospital care.