consumer optimization model that incorporates endogenous fertility as well as endogenous education and health investments. The … model shows that a fertility decline induces higher education and health investments that are able to compensate for …

We investigate the impact of obstetrician supervision, as opposed to midwife supervision, on the short-term health of … design, we consistently find no health benefits from obstetrician supervision, despite increased rates of neonatal intensive …

impact of home births on the health of low-risk newborns using data from the Netherlands, the only developed country where … contributing to these health gains. …

If the marginal utility of consumption depends on health status, this will affect the economic analysis of a number of … central problems in public finance, including the optimal structure of health insurance and optimal life cycle savings. In … this paper, we describe the promises and challenges of various approaches to estimating the effect of health on the …

We investigate the evolution of health inequality over the life-course. Health is modeled as a latent variable that is … variation in health for the college educated, but between 35% and 70% of total health variability for people without college … degrees. Consistent with this, we find that health inequality moves substantially more slowly over the life-course for the …

In this paper, we quantify the effects of health on time allocation. We estimate that improvements in health status … watching TV, sleeping, and consuming other types of leisure. We find that poor health status results in about 300 additional … also find that, for men, better health induces a substitution of market-produced goods for home-produced goods …

This paper investigates the sensitivity of the intergenerational transmission of health to exogenous changes in income …, education and public health, changes that are often delivered by economic growth. It uses individual survey data on 2.24 million … maternal and child health as well as in aggregate economic conditions. The country-level panel is exploited to control for …

The program evaluation literature for population and health policies is in flux, with many disciplines documenting … economists can clarify regarding the causal relationships between economic development, health outcomes, and reproductive … under which people live and their expected life span and health status refers to "health production functions." The …

health status as well as state and industry fixed effects, we show that poor local labor market conditions are associated … economic conditions pose health risks and illustrate an important contrast with studies based on aggregate data. …

significant costs that are borne by displaced workers. We study how job displacement in Norway affects cardiovascular health using … a sample of men and women who are predominantly aged in their early forties. To do so we merge survey data on health and … health behaviors with register data on person and firm characteristics. We track the health of displaced and non …