Healthy, wealthy, and wise
Subtitle: socioeconomic status, poor health in childhood, and human capital development
By: Janet Currie.
Contributors: National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 13987; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 13987.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Description: "There are many possible pathways between parental education, income, and health, and between child health and education, but only some of them have been explored in the literature.  This essay focuses on links between parental socioeconomic status (as measured by education, income, occupation, or in some cases area of residence) and child health, and between child health and adult education or income.  Specifically, I ask two questions: What is the evidence regarding whether parental socioeconomic status affects child health? And, what is the evidence relating child health to future educational and labor market outcomes? I show that there is now strong evidence of both links, suggesting that health could play a role in the intergenerational transmission of economic status"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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