In Germany, employees are generally obliged to participate in the public health insurance system, where coverage is … instead if their income exceeds the compulsory insurance threshold. Here, premia are based on age and health, individuals may … private insurance coverage on the number of doctor visits and self-assessed health. Variation in income around the compulsory …

-perceived health. …

pollution, crime, and noise on self-assessed health, presence of chronic conditions and limitations in daily activities. We … to health, through instrumental variable methods and several endogeneity tests. The main novelty is the sound estimation … of the neighborhood effect on health using observational data, which has the advantage of providing general results that …

In the health economics literature there is an ongoing debate over approaches used to estimate the efficiency of health … systems at various levels, from the level of the individual hospital- or nursing home –up to that of the health system as a …

. It proposes a normative framework to model the influence of educational policy on health outcomes, grounded in Roemerââ … different types of secondary school. We use this reform in two ways: first, to evaluate the health outcomes of different … educational policies under different normative principles; second, to simulate counterfactual distributions of health outcomes by …

The public health literature focusing on the detrimental effects of social isolation has shown that the quantity of … social connections is positively correlated with individual health. Drawing on pooled cross-sectional data, we test this … best predictor of health. We point out the existence of health disparities based on socio-economic status. Poorer and less …

We test the relationship between happiness and self-rated health in Italy. The analysis relies on a unique dataset … modelling, we find that happiness is strongly correlated with perceived good health, after controlling for a number of relevant … socio-economic phenomena. Health inequalities based on income, work status and education are relatively contained in respect …

This paper presents the first empirical assessment of the causal relationship between social capital and health in … perceived good health. …

This paper investigates the non-pecuniary benefits of education in terms of several individuals' health outcomes …, health-damaging and health-improving behaviors,and preventive care. We exploit a reform which raised compulsory schooling by … literature, we analyze a wide range of health indicators. Our analysis shows that the rise in schooling induced by the reform …