Long-run Relations between Childhood Shocks and Health in Late Adulthood-Evidence from the Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe.
In this article, we address the long-run associations between childhood shocks and health in late adulthood. Applying a life-course approach and data from SHARE, we estimate direct and indirect relations of shocks like relocation, dispossession, or hunger and health outcomes after 50 years of age. Having lived in a children's home, in a foster family, or having suffered a period of hunger turn out to be the most detrimental. Using a finite mixture model, which allows to classify the correlations between shocks and later health into a priori unknown groups, we show that some adverse shocks show opposite relations for specific groups. (JEL codes: J1, I12, J13).
University of Linz, Austria. e-mail: nicole.halmdienst@jku.at , rudolf.winterebmer@jku.at.
Nicole
N
Halmdienst
University of Linz, Austria. e-mail: nicole.halmdienst@jku.at , rudolf.winterebmer@jku.at.
Rudolf
R
Winter-Ebmer
Europe; early–life experience; health