Using a sample of Europeans aged 50+ from twelve countries in the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe … (SHARE) we analyse the role of poor material conditions as a determinant of changes in health over a four-year period. We … find that poverty defined with respect to relative incomes has no effect on changes in health. However, broader measures of …

This study examines the uneven effects of air pollution from maritime ports on physical and mental health across racial … traffic influences air pollution and human health. We find that one additional vessel in a port over a year leads to 3 …-related environmental regulation and show that the policy can help alleviate racial inequalities in health outcomes. …

technologies, and workers’ health outcomes using novel and representative German linked employer-employee data. Based on changes in … and service-oriented tasks across all workers, but exacerbates health inequality between cognitive and manual workers … manual workers’ subjective health and increase sick leave, while leaving cognitive workers unaffected. We provide evidence …

This study analyzes the causal effect of an increase in the retirement age on health. We exploit a sizable cohort …-in-Differences approach. The analysis is based on official records covering all individuals insured by the public health system in Germany and …-dimensionality in these health effects. The empirical findings reflect the multi-dimensionality but allow for deriving two broader …

This paper examines the effects of health-oriented food tax reforms on the distribution of tax payments, food demand … and health outcomes. Unlike earlier work, we also take into account the uncertainty related to both demand estimation and … health estimates and report the confidence intervals for the overall health effects instead of only point estimates. Taxation …