2013-09-192013-09-192007http://hdl.handle.net/11212/978http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Delivery.cfm/SSRN_ID992527_code425229.pdf?abstractid=992527&mirid=1In this paper we use data from the Ontario Child Health Study, a community panel study which collected socio-demographic and health information from individuals aged 4-16 in 1983 and which was conducted in three waves (1983, 1987, 2001). A rare property of this survey is that questions were included in 2001 to obtain retrospective reports of physical and sexual abuse in childhood on an ordinal scale. We use this information to examine the neglected topic of the adulthood economic consequences of physical and sexual abuse in childhood.Abuse-sexualEconomic impactPhysical abuseText