groups. Additionally, our analysis allows us to provide an answer to the old question of how health protecting are education …, wealth and marital status. To do so, we decompose the longevity differentials into differences in health at age 50 …, differences in the evolution of health with age, and differences in mortality conditional on health. Remarkably, the latter is the …

intergenerational transmission or well-being and health. Some studies have proposed to use employer wage differentials and in particular …

deterioration of the health care system, changes in diet and obesity, and material deprivation fail to explain the increase in …

an overview of this literature, focusing on studies which seek to establish the causal effect of cannabis use on health …, education and labor market success. We conclude that there do not appear to be serious harmful health effects of moderate … cannabis use. Nevertheless, there is evidence of reduced mental well-being for heavy users who are susceptible to mental health …

also casts doubts on recent findings about a positive effect of health on education. This is because health raises the … that longevity and health have had a minor effect, if any, on the transition from stagnation to growth via investment in …

health indicators. The results indicate a strong effect of macroeconomic conditions during childhood on mortality at all ages …

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 …

health care markets. We show that competition generally favours the majority group as higher quality for the majority is an …