The associations between early life circumstances and later life health and employment in Europe

Empirical Economics

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1251-1282

  Flores, Manuel ^a   Kalwij, Adriaan ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c NETSPAR   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Early life circumstances; Employment; Health; SHARE

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892459031     PISSN: 03777332     EISSN: 14358921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00181-013-0785-3     Document Type: Article

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