The Impact of Childhood Health on Adult Labor Market Outcomes
利用面板数据研究儿童期健康对成年后教育、收入、财富和劳动供给的影响，发现除教育外，儿童期健康不佳对各项结果有显著负面影响，且控制家庭背景后效应更大。
This paper examines impacts of childhood health on SES outcomes observed during adulthood-levels and trajectories of education, family income, household wealth, individual earnings and labor supply. The analysis is conducted using data that collects these SES measures in a panel who were originally children and who are now well into their adult years. Since all siblings are in the panel, one can control for unmeasured family and neighborhood background effects. With the exception of education, poor childhood health has a quantitatively large effect on all these outcomes. Moreover, these estimated effects are larger when unobserved family effects are controlled..