Previous research on the relationship among family socio-economic status (SES), cannabis use and educational attainment has concentrated on finding a causal pathway from SES and illicit drug use to educational achievement. However, the association between family background and a child's cannabis...

Empirical research into the relationship between illicit drug use and labour market success has been found to have mixed results in the literature. The relevant sources of variability are the methods used to account for the potential endogeneity of drug use. This article utilizes clinical data...

This letter shows how unfavourable nutritional status may affect the evolution of income independently from its impact on life spans. Multiple steady states might emerge when it is assumed that nutrition is a component of human capital.

This paper estimates the impact of public medical resources on morbidity indicators. Since health status also depends on a number of factors that are not directly related to health itself, the demographic, socioeconomic and life‐style characteristics of those individuals who are included in...

This paper estimates the impact of public medical resources on morbidity indicators. Since health status also depends on a number of factors that are not directly related to health itself, the demographic, socioeconomic and life-style characteristics of those individuals who are included in the...

This paper explores the relationship between public health expenditure and self-assessed health status. Medical resources are imputed according to where individuals reside. The analysis draws upon data from the 1993 National Health Survey. Controlling for a number of individual characteristics,...