Journal
JOURNAL OF HEALTH ECONOMICS
Volume 37, Issue -, Pages 25-40Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2014.05.003
Keywords
Earnings; Employment; Health; Siblings; Twins
Funding
- Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research
- Centre for Economic Demography (CED) at Lund University
- Handelsbanken's Research Foundation
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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. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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