This study investigates the role of childhood conditions and social inequality in older
Europeans' propensity to age successfully, controlling for later life risk factors. Successful …

This paper examines the effect of social participation on cognitive performance using data
from a longitudinal survey of the elderly in China. It addresses the problem of endogenous …

The relative importance of cohorts' early‐life conditions, compared to later period conditions,
on adult and old‐age mortality is not known. This article studies how cohort‐level mortality …

We use 20th-century data to examine how community economic conditions at the time of
birth influenced various measures of socioeconomic success as adults. Our analysis focuses …

We analyze the relationship between the state of the business cycle at birth and childhood
health. We use a retrospective survey on self-reported childhood health for ten Western …

This paper contributes to the literature on the life course and aging by examining the
association between early-life outcomes and late-life well being, using data from the …

This paper uses the aftermath of the great Tambora eruption in 1815 as a natural experiment
to explore the long-term effects of a nutritional shock during prenatal development. The …

With increasing life expectancy, a major concern is whether the years gained are spent in
good or in poor health. Disability has become the main indicator of health at older ages …

We consider a cross-section model that contains an individual component, a deterministic
time trend and an unobserved latent common time series component. We show the following …

The main objectives of the article were: a comparison of the demographic and SE indicators
in the South Moravian Region, a study of the development of demographic and SE …