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| Title: | | Re-constructing childhood health histories  |
| Authors: | | Smith, James P. |
| Issue Date: | | 2009 |
| Series/Report no.: | | IZA discussion papers 4036 |
| Abstract: | | This paper provides evidence about the quality of retrospective childhood health histories given to respondents in the HRS and the PSID. Even though information on early life health events is critical, there is legitimate skepticism about the ability of older respondents to remember specific health problems that they had as a child. The evidence presented in this paper suggests that this is too negative a view. Respondents appear to remember salient childhood events about themselves such as the illnesses they had as a child quite well. Moreover, these physical and psychological childhood health events are important correlates of adult health during middle age. |
| Subjects: | | Recall childhood health |
| JEL: | | H0 J0 |
| Persistent Identifier of the first edition: | | urn:nbn:de:101:1-20090306299 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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