Do differences in health literacy contribute to the widely documented health-income gradient? In the context of Sweden … professional in the family – and health. Exposure to expertise raises preventive health investments throughout the lifecycle …, we document a strong relationship between exposure to health-related expertise – captured by the presence of a health …

on the health of her adoptive children, suggesting that family environment and resources in the post-birth years have … parental resources during our upbringing that can be influenced by public policy? We study the formation of adult health and … biological and adopting parents. We find that the health of the biological parents affects the health of their adopted children …

We use data from a large sample of adoptees born in Sweden to study to what extent the well-established association … between parental educational attainments and adult health of the child generation can be attributed to pre- or post … health outcomes as adults. These results suggest that growing up in a better-educated household has long-term effects on …

produce health. This suggests that the more educated have more knowledge about the health production function and they have … more health knowledge. This paper uses data from the 1997 and 2002 waves of the NLSY97 to conduct an investigation of the … allocative efficiency hypothesis by analyzing whether education improves health knowledge. The survey design allows us to observe …

drinking. Controlling for health knowledge does not influence the impact of education on health behaviors, supporting the … between education and health behaviors, this effect disappears once the models control for family fixed effects. Similarly …Using data from the NLSY97 we analyze the impact of education on health behaviors, measured by smoking and heavy …

A host of different factors affect health and longevity, ranging from genetic endowments to public policy. Physicians … have a substantial influence on patients’ health and health-related costs, but we know little about the extent of this … influence beyond clinical decisions such as adequate diagnosis and treatment. This paper demonstrates that the health management …

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 …

This paper provides new evidence on how household labor supply responds to fatal and severe non-fatal health shocks in … families' health and labor market outcomes, and construct counterfactuals to affected households by using households that … experience the same shock but a few years in the future. We find that fatal health shocks lead to an immediate increase in the …

We estimate the impact of family structure on investments made in children's health, using data from the 1988 National … Health Interview Survey Child Health Supplement. Controlling for household size, income and characteristics, we find that … mothers, however, their health care does not suffer relative to that reported for children who reside with their birth mothers …

In this paper we extensively analyze the impact of child health and other family characteristics on the cognitive … literature. First, we find only a weak relationship between several measures of child health and child cognitive development …