How childhood health affects poverty in adulthood
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earnings. For example, a sibling study found that those with poor health in childhood had 24 percent lower earnings than their healthier siblings. Second, child health can affect schooling and cognitive achievement, which can in turn affect income. For example, a study of the effects of the eradication of hookworm disease in the American south in the early 1900s found large increases in educational attainment attributable to the health improvement.
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