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Banks, Muriel and Smith (2010);Banks, Berkman, and Smith, 2011). Based on self-reported prevalence of seven important illnesses (diabetes, heart attack, hypertension, heart disease, cancer, diseases of the lung, and stroke), Americans were much less healthy than their English counterparts. These differences were large at all points of the SES distribution. Biological markers of disease showed similar health disparities between Americans and the English, suggesting that these large health differences were not a result of differential reporting of illne. | WORKING P A P E R Childhood Health and Differences in Late-Life Health Outcomes between England and the United States JAMES BANKS ZOE OLDFIELD AND JAMES P. SMITH This product is part of the RAND Labor and Population working paper series. RAND working papers are intended to share researchers latest findings and to solicit informal peer review. They have been approved for circulation by RAND Labor and Population but have not been formally edited or peer reviewed. Unless otherwise indicated working papers can be quoted and cited without permission of the author provided the source is clearly referred to as a working paper. RAND s publications do not necessarily reflect the opinions of its research clients and sponsors. RAND is a registered trademark. WR-860 May 2011 This paper series made possible by the NIA funded RAND Center for the Study of Aging P30AG012815 and the NICHD funded RAND Population Research Center R24HD050906 . LABOR AND POPULATION May 2011 Childhood health and differences in late-life health outcomes between England and the United States James Banksa Zoe Oldfieldb James P Smithc aProfessor of Economics University of Manchester and Deputy Research Director IFS bSenior Research Economist Institute of Fiscal Studies cSenior Economist The RAND Corporation Acknowledgements This paper was presented at the NBER Boulders Economics of Aging Conference in May 2011 .We are grateful for comments by participants at the conference and our discussant Amitabh Chandra. The research was supported by grants from the NIA. Banks and Oldfield are grateful to the Economic and Social Research Council for co-funding through the Centre for Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy at the IFS. 1 Abstract In this paper we examine the link between retrospectively reported measures of childhood health and the prevalence of various major and minor diseases at older ages. Our analysis is based on comparable retrospective questionnaires placed in the Health and Retirement Study and the

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