We study the short-run effect of involuntary job loss on comprehensive measures of public health costs. We focus on job … loss induced by plant closure, thereby addressing the reverse causality problem of deteriorating health leading to job loss … as job displacements due to plant closure are unlikely caused by workers' health status, but potentially have important …

Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent Health. The sampling design of the survey causes the conventional 2SLS estimator to be …

account (covering education and training), and a health account (covering insurance against sickness and disability). Unlike …’s welfare accounts. The government could redistribute income across people’s welfare accounts, but these redistributions would …, cushioning people against economic risk, ensuring efficient provision of health and education services, providing social safety …

possible endogeneity, we find an effect of insecurity on incomes, school enrolment, health status, and infant mortality … provision of certain public services, notably schooling and health care, and in the placement of development projects. Taken …

Increases in human stature are seen as a key indicator of improvement in the average health of populations. The … increased by 11cm--representing a dramatic improvement in health. Interestingly, there was a distinct acceleration in the period … increasing height was the improving disease environment as reflected by the fall in infant mortality. Rising income and education …

model that includes unscheduled hospitalizations as a measure for unanticipated health shocks and estimate the model on data … from the British National Child Development Study (NCDS). We show that such health shocks increase the likelihood of an … onset of a disability by around 138%. However, health shocks are relatively rare events and therefore the larger part of …