out of work may experience mental and physical health problems, material deprivation and poverty. This study aims to … examine the impact of unemployment benefits on health, living standards and unemployment in Turkey using the panel Income and … for causality. Our findings suggest a significant impact of unemployment benefits on health and living standards. Moreover …

municipalities with high tuberculosis prevalence gained more in terms of education, earnings, longevity, and height following this … public health intervention. Furthermore, the gains from the disease control program are not limited to the initially treated … benefited more from the intervention and we present new evidence that a narrowing of the gap in childhood health can lead to a …

The world has enjoyed huge improvements in population health during the last half century. But major health problems … deal with noncommunicable diseases. Several classic arguments for public spending on health have buttressed governments …’ efforts to improve health. These efforts have now been further spurred by new economic arguments that better population health …

We use administrative data from South Australia to study the impact of an unconditional cash transfer on child health … suggest that households spent the windfall income on electricity and private health insurance. There is no robust evidence …

The relationship between recessions and health is mixed, with some evidence from the most recent financial crisis … the Irish crisis of 2008, to test the impact of economic expansion and contraction on mothers physical and mental health … and health behaviours. Three waves of data from the Irish Lifeways Cohort Study for the period 2001-2011, and local area …

We evaluate the effects of home visiting targeted towards disadvantaged first-time mothers on maternal and child health … administrative health data. In a context in which the target group has comprehensive health care access, we find that home visiting … has no effects on most types of health utilization, health behaviors, and physical health measures. However, the …

In this study, we analyze health effects of a recent education reform in Germany exposing students to increased … schooling intensity. The reform shortened the higher secondary education track by one year. As the overall curriculum required … significantly reduced adolescents' self-rated mental health status. The overall effect on the mental component summary score (MCS …

We analyze how access to childcare affects health outcomes of children with unemployed parents using a reform that …