This paper estimates the effect of alcohol consumption on mortality using the minimum drinking age in a regression … alcohol consumption results in a discrete 9 percent increase in the mortality rate at age 21. The overall increase in deaths … total mortality. Given that mortality due to external causes peaks at about age 21 and that young adults report very high …

mortality below age forty generates productivity gains, which in turn may explain why the positive correlation between health …This paper revisits the relationship between health and growth in light of modern endogenous growth theory. We propose … a unified framework that encompasses the growth effects of both the rate of improvement of health and the level of …

health and income do not affect subsequent economic growth. Using their data we reject this assumption in favor of a model of …In a recent paper, Acemoglu and Johnson (2007) argue that the large increases in population health witnessed in the 20 …th century may have lowered income levels. We argue that this result depends crucially on their assumption that initial …

health, there is more inequality in the world than if we consider income alone. Such international inequalities in life …People in poor countries live shorter lives than people in rich countries so that, if we scale income by some index of … expectancy decreased for many years after 1945, and the strong correlation between income and life-expectancy might lead us to …

caused by worsening health in old age. Our model explains the long-run decline in the age of retirement as an income level … effect. We show that improvements in health and longevity tend to increase the desired retirement age, though less than …

not only responsible for mortality in childhood but also leaves a residue of long-term health risks for survivors, risks …We investigate the childhood determinants of adult height in populations, focusing on the respective roles of income … United States, we find a strong inverse relationship between postneonatal (one month to one year) mortality, interpreted as a …

income per capita and mortality rates, a correlation that also exists within countries, where richer, better-educated people … technical progress (some of which is induced by income and facilitated by education) as the ultimate determinant of health. Such … downplay direct causal mechanisms running from income to health …

We investigate age-specific mortality in Britain and the United States since 1950. Neither trends in income nor in … patterns of mortality decline. Patterns of income inequality were similar in both countries, but adult and elderly mortality … inequality, and mortality data on an age/year (or cohort/year) basis show no evidence that income has any effect on mortality in …

Recent studies analyzing the effects of religion on various economic, social, health and political outcomes have been … participation or on the intensity of participation. Using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, this paper analyzes …