This paper investigates whether leaving school in a bad economy deteriorates health in the longrun. We focus on individuals in England and Wales who left full-time education in their last year of compulsory schooling immediately after the 1973 oil crisis. Our identification strategy builds on...

Long term impact of social background and parental smoking on adult smoking in France: Results from the 2006 ESPS Survey Objective – To study the influence of social background and parental smoking on adult smoking. Methods – This study is based on a sample of 2,173 men and 3,083 women...

Cet essai tente de démontrer que paradoxalement, même si les nouvelles technologies favorisent la circulation des idées et de l'information, les inégalités se creusent toujours plus. Le capitalisme continue de profiter à une minorité provoquant un appauvrissement des connaissances.

Heterogeneity in time and risk preferences has been proposed as one of the mechanisms involved in the educational gradient in smoking, but this mechanism has scarcely been explored empirically. Subjective scales were introduced in the 2008 French National Health, Health Care and Insurance Survey...