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 …

This paper analyzes the impact of rainfall fluctuations during the gestational period on health at birth. We … health. We find that negative rainfall shocks are robustly correlated with higher infant mortality, lower birth weight, and … minimized when the local public health infrastructure is sufficiently developed (municipality coverage of piped water and …

We study the impact of language deficiency on the health production of childhood migrants to Australia. Our … large negative effect of English deficiency on physical health that is robust to a range of different specifications. In the … upper bounds for the true effect of English deficiency on health of one half and a full standard deviation in the health …

relationship between marriage and health for working-age (20 to 64) individuals. In both data sets married agents are healthier … than unmarried ones, and the health gap between married and unmarried agents widens by age. After controlling for … observables, a gap of about 12 percentage points in self-reported health persists for ages 55-59. We estimate the marriage health …