Empirical studies show that years of schooling are positively correlated with good health. The implication may go from … education to health, from health to education, or from factors that influence both variables. We formalize a model that … determines an individual's demand for knowledge and health based on the causal effects, and study the impacts on the individual …

's counterfactual work behavior. We show that extending parental leave has significant positive effects on children's health and human …

Nationwide health interventions are difficult to evaluate as contemporaneous control groups do not exist and before … intervention has no direct effect on the health outcome but influences the outcome only through its effect on individual behavior … behavior, for which a conditional before-after assumption is more plausible; and (ii) the effect of the behaviour on the health …

A large literature has analyzed pricing inefficiencies in health insurance markets due to adverse selection, typically … have information frictions that lead to suboptimal health plan choices. As a result, policies such as information provision …