health-related selection of individuals into self-employment (barrier effect). Our main finding is that the selection of …The self-employed are often reported to be healthier than wage workers; however, the cause of this health difference is … largely unknown. The longitudinal nature of the US Health and Retirement Study allows us to gauge the plausibility of two …

paper we exploit detailed friendship nominations in the US Add Health data, and extend the Spatial Autoregressive Model (SAR …) model to deal with (i) endogenous peer selection, and (ii) unobserved contextual effects, in order to identify the … affects later life health and socioeconomic outcomes. …

presence of selection effects and treatment heterogeneity. As an example we present an estimate of the TPE for a rural water …

insurance to employers: when firms are hit by temporary shocks the effect on profits is cushioned by risk sharing with workers …

Assessing the scope for insurance in rural communities usually requires a structural model of household behavior under … Indian farmers in the ICRISAT villages would not benefit from the introduction of formal weather insurance. In this paper we … that this can affect the conclusion that insurance would not be welfare improving. …

discriminate between the theoretical parameters. Differences in health knowledge appear to be responsible for the greatest part of … the education disparity in diet. However, when faced with the most explicit health information regarding diet, lower … educated individuals still state choices that imply a lower concern for negative health consequences. This is consistent with a …