This paper estimates the long-term health effects of Vietnam-Era military service using Australia's National … conscription lotteries for identification. Our primary contribution is the quality and breadth of our health outcomes. We use … significant detrimental effects on a number of morbidity measures. Hearing and mental health appear to be particularly affected. …

A large body of empirical research links mental health and labour market outcomes; however, there are few studies that … effectively control for the two-way causality between work and health and the existence of unobserved individual characteristics … that might jointly determine health and labour market outcomes. In this study, we estimate the effect of mental health on …

We examine the effect of survey measurement error on the empirical relationship between child mental health and … personal and family characteristics, and between child mental health and educational progress. Our contribution is to use … progress. Maternal education and mental health, family income, and major adverse life events, are all significant in explaining …

clinical measures of mental health. Resilience in adulthood is predictable by childhood socioeconomic circumstances; the … strongest predictor is good childhood health. …

health using the subjective general health status measure. However, in England the size of the gradient is considerably …In an influential study Case et al. (2002) documented a positive relationship between family income and child health in … health income gradient in England, which has a comprehensive publicly-funded National Health Service (NHS) founded on the …

This paper explores the determinants of individuals? psychological and psychosocial health using recent Health Survey … Social Support scores, are negatively related to household poverty as well as acute and chronic physical health. Unemployment … psychosocial health. …

Passive smoking is a major public health issue. This paper documents the main risk factors that determine children … exposure on child health. Such information is valuable to policy-makers when deciding upon the amount of resources to direct … of children drawn from the Health Survey for England, for whom we match parental and household smoking and demographic …

The socio-economic gradient in health remains a controversial topic in economics and other social sciences. In this … paper we develop a new duration model that allows for unobserved persistent individual-specific health shocks and provides … leads to a 12% decline in the probability of death. We find a large role for unobserved health shocks, with 5-years of …