The Long Reach of Childhood Health and Circumstance: Evidence from the Whitehall II Study.

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Published in Econ J (London) on August 01, 2011

Authors

Anne Case1, Christina Paxson

Author Affiliations

1: Center for Health and Wellbeing, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University.

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