This paper estimates the long-term health effects of Vietnam-Era military service using Australia's National … conscription lotteries for identification. Our primary contribution is the quality and breadth of our health outcomes. We use … significant detrimental effects on a number of morbidity measures. Hearing and mental health appear to be particularly affected …

Economists rely heavily on self-reported measures of health status to examine the relationship between income and … health. In this paper we directly compare survey responses to a self-reported measure of health that is commonly available in … nationally-representative individual and household surveys, with objective measures of the same health condition. Our particular …

Passive smoking is a major public health issue. This paper documents the main risk factors that determine children … exposure on child health. Such information is valuable to policy-makers when deciding upon the amount of resources to direct … of children drawn from the Health Survey for England, for whom we match parental and household smoking and demographic …

We examine the effect of survey measurement error on the empirical relationship between child mental health and … personal and family characteristics, and between child mental health and educational progress. Our contribution is to use … progress. Maternal education and mental health, family income, and major adverse life events, are all significant in explaining …

A large body of empirical research links mental health and labour market outcomes; however, there are few studies that … effectively control for the two-way causality between work and health and the existence of unobserved individual characteristics … that might jointly determine health and labour market outcomes. In this study, we estimate the effect of mental health on …

predictors. Adding contemporaneous adulthood variables for health and socio-economic status increases the predictability of …

Studies using education policy reforms to isolate causal effects of education on health produce mixed evidence. We … analyse an unusually large sample and study chronic health conditions. For identification, we use two major education reforms … method generated precise estimates of the impact of education on a comprehensive range of health conditions. Our results …

environment affect workers' perceived job security, and the impact of job security on measures of mental and physical health. To … movements drive changes in perceived job security, which in turn significantly and substantively affects the mental health of … workers. In contrast, we find no effects on physical health. Our results imply that the estimated welfare costs of recessions …

A large literature uses parental evaluations of child health status to provide evidence on the socioeconomic … determinants of health. If how parents perceive health questions differs by income or education level, then estimates of the … child mental health evaluations from parents, teachers, children and psychiatrists for mental health problems, test whether …

Using data from the US National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, and fitting family fixed-effects models of child health …. The health measures cover both physical and mental health, and the cognitive development test scores span (1) Memory, (2 … poor mental health. We also find that left-handed children have significantly lower cognitive development test scores than …