title: Adolescent health and adult labor market outcomes.
abstract: Whereas a large literature has shown the importance of early life health for adult socioeconomic outcomes, there is little evidence on the importance of adolescent health. We contribute to the literature by studying the impact of adolescent health status on adult labor market outcomes using a unique and large-scale dataset covering almost the entire population of Swedish males. We show that most types of major conditions have long-run effects on future outcomes, and that the strongest effects result from mental conditions. Including sibling fixed effects or twin pair fixed effects reduces the magnitudes of the estimates, but they remain substantial.
authors.affiliation: Department of Economics at Lund University, 22007 Lund, Sweden; Centre for Economic Demography at Lund University, Sweden; IZA, Germany. Electronic address: Petter.Lundborg@nek.lu.se.
authors.forename: Petter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Lundborg
authors.affiliation: Department of Economics at Lund University, 22007 Lund, Sweden; Centre for Economic Demography at Lund University, Sweden. Electronic address: Anton.Nilsson@nek.lu.se.
authors.forename: Anton
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Nilsson
authors.affiliation: Linnaeus University Centre for Labour Market and Discrimination Studies, 39182 Kalmar, Sweden; Centre for Economic Demography at Lund University, Sweden; CReAM, University College London, UK; IZA, Germany. Electronic address: Dan-Olof.Rooth@lnu.se.
authors.forename: Dan-Olof
authors.initials: DO
authors.lastname: Rooth
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000067697:Adolescent Health; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D004651:Employment / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D007182:Income / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology; D008875:Middle Aged; D008889:Military Personnel; D035781:Siblings; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013548:Sweden / Q000453:epidemiology
keywords: Earnings; Employment; Health; Siblings; Twins