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Demography (2023) 60 (2): 431–459.
Published: 01 April 2023
...Manuel Flores; Barbara L. Wolfe Abstract We expand on previous studies investigating the links between early health and later health by examining four distinct dimensions of early-life health and multiple life course outcomes, including the age of onset of serious cardiovascular diseases (CVDs...
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Demography (2010) 47 (Suppl 1): S65–S85.
Published: 01 March 2010
.... ( 2008 ). Height, Health and Cognitive Function at Older Ages . American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings , 98 , 463 – 67 . 10.1257/aer.98.2.463 Case A. , & Paxson C. ( 2009 ). Early Life Health and Cognitive Function in Old Age . American Economic Review Papers...
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Demography (2018) 55 (1): 319–340.
Published: 17 January 2018
... contrast to the world they had lived in just a few years before. In particular, there was a dramatic increase in the potential for physical, mental, and financial harm. This study explores how this change in the environment affected the early-life health of the next generation. The sudden change...
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Demography (2019) 56 (5): 1855–1874.
Published: 29 July 2019
...C. Justin Cook; Jason M. Fletcher; Angela Forgues Abstract A large literature has documented links between harmful early-life exposures and later-life health and socioeconomic deficits. These studies, however, have typically been unable to examine the possibility that these shocks are transmitted...
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Demography (2009) 46 (4): 671–694.
Published: 01 November 2009
...Margot I. Jackson Abstract The educational and economic consequences of poor health during childhood and adolescence have become increasingly clear, with a resurgence of evidence leading researchers to reconsider the potentially significant contribution of early-life health to population welfare...
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Demography (2009) 46 (2): 387–403.
Published: 01 May 2009
...James P. Smith Abstract This article provides evidence about the quality of retrospective childhood health histories given to respondents in the Health and Retirement Survey (HRS) and the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). Even though information on early life health events is critical...
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Demography (2016) 53 (4): 1135–1168.
Published: 08 July 2016
... exploiting a twin fixed-effects design to control for the influence of genetics and shared family background. This result is robust to controlling for within-twin-pair differences in early-life health and cognitive ability, as proxied by birth weight and height, as well as to restricting the sample to MZ...
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Demography (2008) 45 (3): 673–691.
Published: 01 August 2008
... is extremely rare. These results may enlighten the debate over how harsh early-life health conditions affect older-age mortality. Demography, Volume 45-Number 3, August 2008: 673 691 673 T THE EXCEPTIONALLY HIGH LIFE EXPECTANCY OF COSTA RICAN NONAGENARIANS* LUIS ROSERO-BIXBY Robust data from a voter registry...
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in Cumulative Childhood Adversity, Educational Attainment, and Active Life Expectancy Among U.S. Adults
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Published: 27 November 2013
Fig. 3 Active life expectancy at age 50 for white men across combinations of early-life health, early-life socioeconomic context, and educational attainment. <HS = less than high school; HS = high school; SC = some college; and CO = bachelor’s degree or higher
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Cumulative Childhood Adversity, Educational Attainment, and Active Life Expectancy Among U.S. Adults
Demography (2014) 51 (2): 413–435.
Published: 27 November 2013
...Fig. 3 Active life expectancy at age 50 for white men across combinations of early-life health, early-life socioeconomic context, and educational attainment. <HS = less than high school; HS = high school; SC = some college; and CO = bachelor’s degree or higher ...
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Demography (2019) 56 (2): 679–706.
Published: 16 January 2019
...Volha Lazuka Abstract Do early-life effects of investments in public health persist to the oldest-old ages? This article answers this question by using the primary care reform in rural Sweden that between 1890 and 1917 led to the establishment of local health districts, together with openings...
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Demography (2017) 54 (6): 2043–2071.
Published: 03 November 2017
...Steven A. Haas; Katsuya Oi; Zhangjun Zhou Abstract In recent years, population health research has focused on understanding the determinants of later-life health. Two strands of that work have focused on (1) international comparisons of later-life health and (2) assessing the early-life origins...
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Demography (2024) 61 (2): 363–392.
Published: 01 April 2024
... Selection Polygenic index UK Biobank The life course perspective is a predominant theoretical framework in diverse fields of research. Health and socioeconomic status (SES) in a population are shaped in critical ways by early-life exposures of family, environment, and policy contexts ( Barker 1995...
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Demography (2020) 57 (2): 529–558.
Published: 25 March 2020
... for selection factors related to both early-life and later-life health or has had to rely on retrospectively reported accounts of childhood circumstances. Using the 1958 National Child Development Study, and in particular the biomedical survey conducted in 2002–2003, we investigate associations between...
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Demography (2020) 57 (2): 445–473.
Published: 07 February 2020
...Emily Smith-Greenaway Abstract The long arm of childhood, with its wide-ranging influence on individuals’ life chances, highlights the importance of understanding the determinants of health in early life. Research has established that parents’ education is a major determinant of childhood health...
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Demography (2023) 60 (2): 351–377.
Published: 01 April 2023
...Jason M. Fletcher; Michal Engelman; Norman J. Johnson; Jahn Hakes; Alberto Palloni Abstract A rich literature shows that early-life conditions shape later-life outcomes, including health and migration events. However, analyses of geographic disparities in mortality outcomes focus almost exclusively...
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Demography (2017) 54 (6): 2125–2158.
Published: 21 November 2017
.... Using growth curve models to analyze the Health and Retirement Study, I find that early-life exposure to the Great Depression is associated with fluid cognition, controlling for intervening factors—evidence for a critical period model. I find little support for a social trajectory model. Disadvantage...
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Demography (2016) 53 (3): 777–804.
Published: 17 May 2016
... trajectories are strongly linked to later-life health for men but only minimally for women. For men, family trajectories characterized by early family formation, no family formation, an early marital disruption, or high fertility are associated with poorer physical health. Among women, only those who...
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Demography (2024) 61 (1): 87–113.
Published: 01 February 2024
..., it is surprising that studies focusing on links between the Dust Bowl and later-life health have produced inconclusive and mixed results. We reevaluate this literature and study the long-term effects of in utero and early-life exposure to topsoil erosion caused by the 1930s Dust Bowl on old-age longevity...
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Published: 01 April 2024
( Elwert 2013 ; Elwert and Winship 2014 ). The effects of early-life environments on SES and health outcomes in later life (individual traits) represent a scarring effect. Early-life environments do not affect genetic predispositions (individual traits) because genetic variants are determined prior
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