Height is consulted as a latent indicator of early nutrition and lifetime health status. Height is observed to increase … in recent decades in populations where per capita national income has increased and public health activities have grown …. Height is determined by genetic make up and realized in part through satisfactory nutrition and health related care and …

We study the effect of obesity on wages and employment, using data from the British NCDS. The results show a …

reduced poverty are closely associated with improvements in a population's child nutrition, adult health, and schooling …

With work a key vector of Covid-19 transmission, this report examines why it is critical that occupational health and … in a health crisis, determining who is at greater risk of becoming infected, and whether or not they will have access to …

Weather-related heat exposure has become a sanitary concern given the wide repercussions it has for health. Both … physiological and epidemiological research show that the impact of heat on human health goes far beyond acute heat conditions such …, respiratory and other acute illnesses and reproductive health. During heatwaves there is an increase in injury-related mortality …

the role of penalty minutes and more specifically, fighting, during the regular season in determining wages for …

The perception of disease risks and risky health behaviors are closely associated. In this paper, we investigate the …

products will not increase the health risk to smokers who switch to them, nor to society as a whole. This evidence would not …

We study the effect of permanent income innovations on health for a prime-aged population. Using information on more …-demographic factors, health outcomes and selected risk factors. We then exploit structural and arguably exogenous changes in cohort … incomes over the eighties and nineties to uncover causal effects of permanent income shocks on health. We find that such …