Increased health care spending has placed pressure on public and private payers to prioritize spending. Cost …

find a quarter of students violated the order. Yet, neither risk preference, altruism, nor preexisting health conditions …-existing health conditions may not voluntarily comply, resulting in higher health care congestion than otherwise expected. …

This study estimates the causal effect of working hours on health. We deal with the endogeneity of working hours … on subjective and several objective health measures. The effects are mainly driven by women and parents of minor children …

Understanding of the substantial disparity in health between low and high socioeconomic status (SES) groups is hampered … disparities in health by SES. In our model, lifestyle factors, working conditions, retirement, living conditions and curative care … are mechanisms through which SES, health and mortality are related. Our model predicts a widening and possibly a …

decreases, and the two have different implications for human health. An alternative measure for net current biological …

We study the effects of genetic endowments on inequalities in education, income, and health. Specifically, we conduct … our genetic score and socioeconomic outcomes is causal, (ii) genetic luck for higher income is linked with better health …

We present a theory of the relation between health and retirement that generates testable predictions regarding the … interaction of health, wealth and financial incentives in retirement decisions. The theory predicts (i) that wealthier individuals … (compared to poorer individuals) are more likely to retire for health reasons(affordability proposition), and (ii) that health …

pressure strongly associated with adverse health outcomes. In line with theories of compensating differentials, work pressure …

This paper examines the effect of e-waste dumping sites on early child health. We focus on two major dumping sites in …