Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise: Socioeconomic Status, Poor Health in Childhood, and Human Capital Development

By Janet Currie. 2009

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Subfields: Health, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Sociology and Political Science

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Education and Family Background: Mechanisms and Policies (2010, background): “This literature is rapidly developing as documented by Almond and Currie (2010) and the papers by James Heckman and co-authors, which provide recent extensive overviews of contributions and directions for new research.”
Education and Poverty: Confronting the Evidence. Working Papers Series. SAN11-01. (2011, background): “19 outcomes and how many of those poor health outcomes translate into low cognitive outcomes (Currie, 2009).”
Economic Decision-Making in Poverty Depletes Behavioral Control (2011, background): “Deaton (1990) observes that allowing heterogeneity in discount rates in a theory of consumption under borrowing constraints “divides the population into two groups, one of which lives a little better than hand to mouth but never has more than enough to meet emergencies, while the other, as a group, ”
Shared Book Reading Interventions With English Learners: A Meta-Analysis (2018, background): “…respond to academic interventions differently than peers from high SES backgrounds, and their performance may be influenced by health disparities (Currie, 2009), low quantity of language input at home (Hart & Risley, 2003), access to resources, and different parenting practices (Esping-Andersen…”
The economic costs of pain in the United States. (2012, result): “There is longstanding literature that shows the impact of health on wages, earnings, labor supply, and missed days of work.(12,13) Similar to our study, these studies relied heavily on the human capital on human capital theory.”
Early Life Circumstance and Adult Mental Health (2019, background): “…evidence in economics.5 These studies show that changes in fetal programming can affect a wide variety of outcomes, including physical health (Currie 2009; Hoynes, Schanzenbach, and Almond 2012); IQ, educational performance, and attainment (Bleakley 2007; Aizer and Cunha 2012; Bharadwaj,…”
Childhood Circumstances and Adult Outcomes: Act II (2018, neutral): “As Currie and Moretti (2003) point out, maternal education is endogenously chosen, and has possible effects on many aspects of a woman’s life,(15) including fertility choices.”
A story of large landowners and math skills: Inequality and human capital formation in long-run development, 1820–2000 (2014, background): “Health and the quality of nutrition – especially during the first years of life – are important determinants of cognitive abilities (and numeracy), and hence this could be an alternative channel of causal impact (Currie, 2009; Case and Paxson, 2008).”
Academic Interventions for Elementary and Middle School Students With Low Socioeconomic Status: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (2017, background): “Currie (2009) documented that low SES children have worse health on a very broad range of measures, including fetal conditions, physical health at birth, incidence of chronic conditions, and mental health problems—problems which later influenced educational and labor market outcomes.”
Killing Me Softly: The Fetal Origins Hypothesis (2011, background): “Empirical Contributions from Economics Barker’s fetal origins hypothesis has spawned a large and growing empirical literature both within health economics and more broadly [Currie, 2009].”