<p><p>The estimated impacts of childhood psychological health problems on adult economic life are severe and substantially larger than the impacts of a wide range of childhood physical health problems, according to work co-authored by IFS researchers and published this week in the <i>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences</i>.</p></p>
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Alissa Goodman
Alissa is an IFS Research Fellow and a Professor of Economics and Director of the Centre for Longitudinal Studies at the UCL Institute of Education.
James Smith
Robert Joyce
Robert is a Deputy Director. His work focuses on primarily on the labour market, income and wealth inequality, and the design of the welfare system.
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