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dc.contributor.authorSmith, James P.en
dc.date.accessioned2009-03-25-
dc.date.accessioned2010-07-07T11:53:51Z-
dc.date.available2010-07-07T11:53:51Z-
dc.date.issued2009-
dc.identifier.piurn:nbn:de:101:1-20090306299en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/35606-
dc.description.abstractThis 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.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisher|aInstitute for the Study of Labor (IZA) |cBonnen
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aIZA Discussion Papers |x4036en
dc.subject.jelH0en
dc.subject.jelJ0en
dc.subject.ddc330en
dc.subject.keywordRecallen
dc.subject.keywordchildhood healthen
dc.subject.stwGesundheiten
dc.subject.stwLebensverlaufen
dc.subject.stwKognitionen
dc.subject.stwUSAen
dc.titleRe-constructing childhood health histories-
dc.type|aWorking Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn594728363en
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen

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