TY  - JOUR
AU  - Currie,Janet
TI  - Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise: Socioeconomic Status, Poor Health in Childhood,                                                 and Human Capital Development
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 13987
PY  - 2008
Y2  - May 2008
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w13987
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w13987.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Janet Currie
Princeton University
316 Wallace Hall
Princeton, NJ 08544
Tel: 609-258-7393
Fax: 609-258-5974
E-Mail: jcurrie@princeton.edu
AB  - 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.
ER  -