This lecture argues that mental health is a major factor of production. It is the biggest single influence on life … satisfaction, with mental health eight years earlier a more powerful explanatory factor than current income. Mental health also … affects earnings and educational success. But, most strikingly, it affects employment and physical health. In advanced …

incentives for children's education, family preventive health care and parents' work and training. Using a randomized controlled … rewards were offered. The program also led to some effects in each of the three areas of education, health and work, although …

sensitivity to local unemployment rates varies by characteristics such as health, cognitive ability and non-cognitive ability … unemployment rate are associated with larger variations for those with poor health or with a low non-cognitive ability. This …

the economic health and social outcomes of the elderly. Our results found that the elderly in India are highly exposed to … negative impacts due to vulnerability in socio-economic and health spheres of life. Low labor force participation, lack of …, the fiscal challenges include increased income tax and insurance coverage for the elderly, while health challenges imply a …

This is a short paper analyzing the potential effects of a targeted school-building program on health indicators. The …

latter should be differentiated to account for different individuals' heterogeneous health when they grow older. This paper … explores the relevance of this idea using the European Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) panel data. It … first quantifies the health gradient across and within each of the European countries across sociodemographic groups (i …