Victor Fuchs has suggested that the persistent positive correlation between education and health habits can be … explained by interpersonal differences in the discount rate. If Fuchs is correct, some health habits can be used as instruments …

discuss alternative explanations of the correlation between health and schooling. The second is to test these explanations … is limited to one rather unique body of data and uses two measures of health that are far from ideal. The methodological … of current and past health and background characteristics become available …

smoking of men in late middle age in the Health and Retirement Study better than myopic models. We develop and estimate a …

Health, wealth and where one lives are important, if not the three most important material living conditions. There are … many mechanisms that suggest that living arrangements and well-being derived from health and economic status are closely …

-term effects of the original Earth Day on attitudes, environmental outcomes, and children's health. Unusually bad weather in a …

We examine the effects of the State Innovation Models (SIM) on population-level health status. The SIM initiative … Surveillance System for the years 2010 -- 2016 to compare health of the populations in 6 SIM states to 15 states that were not … involved in any aspects of SIM. We examine changes in health using an event study design. We develop a Latent Class Profile …

poor health of young slave children. The sources of deprivation can be traced to the fetal period. The slave work routine …

capital, health, is also largely transmitted from generation to generation, contributing to limited socio-economic mobility …. Using data from the NLSY, we first present new evidence on intergenerational transmission of health outcomes in the U … native and immigrant children inherit a prominent fraction of their health status from their parents, and that, on average …

health capacity to work longer. For that purpose we use Milligan-Wise and Cutler-Meara Cutler-Meara- Richards …

labor market in Sweden since the late 1990s. We investigate whether or not there are potentials, with respect to health and … as much as the age group 50-54 at a particular level of health. We also provide evidence on the development of self …-assessed health and health inequality in the Swedish population …