county-level unemployment rates and mortality risk. After partialling out important confounding factors including baseline … health status as well as state and industry fixed effects, we show that poor local labor market conditions are associated … with higher mortality risk for working-aged men. In particular, we show that a one percentage point increase in the …

We employ data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to investigate income to health causality. To account for … unobserved heterogeneity, we focus on the relationship between earnings growth and changes in self-reported health status. Causal … Granger-type causality running from income to health for married men but not for women or single men. These effects are more …

We estimate the impact of the Great Recession of 2007–2009 on health outcomes in the United States. We show that a one … percentage point increase in the unemployment rate resulted in a 7.8–8.8 percent increase in reports of poor health. Mental … health was also adversely impacted and reports of chronic drinking increased. These effects were concentrated among those …

We investigate sibling correlations in health status using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and Bayesian methods that … estimate that between 50% and 60% of health status can be attributed to familial or neighborhood characteristics. Taking the … previous estimates of sibling correlations in health that rely on linear models, are more in-line with sibling correlations in …

In this paper we investigate the contribution of health related behaviors to the education gradient, using an empirical … approach that addresses the endogeneity of both education and behaviors in the health production function. We apply this … approach to a multi-country data set, which includes 12 European countries and has information on education, health and health …

showing that mortality is pro-cyclical whereas others find the opposite. Some suggest that the aggregation level of analysis …There has been much interest recently in the relationship between economic conditions and mortality, with some studies … men from 1993 to 2007. Our results show that the association between the business cycle and mortality does not depend on …

We investigate the returns to college attendance in Canada in terms of health and mortality reduction. To do so, we …. The impact on mortality are found to be larger than those estimated from the health microsimulation model (hazard ratio of … first use a dynamic health microsimulation model to document how interventions which incentivize college attendance among …

-compulsory education level increased after the reform.In addition, we find that the reform decreases mortality while young (16-25) for both … genders while it increases mortality for middle age women (26-40). We provide evidence to proof that the latter increase is … partly explained by the deterioration of the health habits of affected women. Together, these results help explain the …

health and survival. But equal rates of growth often deliver unequal rates of poverty reduction and absolute deprivation is … for education, fertility and state health expenditure, and eliminated once we introduce controls for omitted trends …

on morbidity and mortality. We show that health based selection into smoking has increased over the last fifty years with … knowledge of its health effects. We show that the effect of smoking on mortality is higher for high educated individuals and for …We show that individuals who are in poorer health, independently from smoking, are more likely to start smoking and to …