Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/51697 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 5804
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We study the relationship between early life health and adult earnings using a unique dataset that covers almost the entire population of Swedish males born between 1950 and 1970. The health information is obtained from medical examinations during the mandatory military enlistment tests at age 18, which we have further linked to register data on adult earnings. We find that most types of major diagnoses have long-run effects on future earnings with the largest effects resulting from mental conditions. Including sibling fixed effects or twin-pair fixed effects reduces the magnitudes of the estimates, although remaining substantial.
Subjects: 
earnings
health
specific conditions
siblings
twins
JEL: 
I1
J24
J31
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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