explicit contracts to crowd out implicit insurance provided by the firm, even though the latter yields higher welfare. We …

We study the contribution of health-related behaviors to the health-education gradient by distinguishing between short … behaviors in the health production function. Focusing on self-reported poor health as our health outcome, we find that education … has a protective effect for European males and females aged 50+. We also find that the mediating effects of health …

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 … and falling family size had more modest effects. Improvements in health care are hard to identify and the effects of the …

In this paper we investigate if there was a causal effect of changes in current and 'permanent' income on the health of …-effects estimators to our ordinal health measures. Whilst the exogeneity of reunification allows us to establish the causality between … income and health, the fixed-effects methodology additionally enables us to control for individual unobservable heterogeneity …

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 …