Alzheimer's disease represents a significant burden in terms of time for the carer of the patient not institutionalized. The aim of this article is to estimate the cost of the time of the informal care depending on the type of disability and study the underlying factors of its variability. The...

Previous research on the relationship among family socio-economic status (SES), cannabis use and educational attainment has concentrated on finding a causal pathway from SES and illicit drug use to educational achievement. However, the association between family background and a child's cannabis...

Empirical research into the relationship between illicit drug use and labour market success has been found to have mixed results in the literature. The relevant sources of variability are the methods used to account for the potential endogeneity of drug use. This article utilizes clinical data...

La enfermedad de Alzheimer representa una carga importante en términos de tiempo para el cuidador del enfermo no institucionalizado. El objetivo de este artículo es estimar el coste del tiempo del cuidado informal según el tipo de discapacidad y estudiar los factores determinantes de su...

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the role health investment plays in human capital accumulation, and in so doing to demonstrate that education is not the only factor affecting the performance of the labor force and productivity. Estimates are made for the OECD countries for the period...

. An overlapping generation model has been developed in order to analyze the effects of health on the accumulation and intergenerational transmission of human capital. The model shows that the human capital transition function can provide multiple steady states when it is assumed that returns to...

Although human capital is a clear determinant of economic growth, it is only recently that health's role in this process has become a focus of serious academic inquiry. By marrying the separate fields of health economics and macroeconomic growth theory, this groundbreaking book explores the...

The purpose of this paper is to identify the role of health status in productivity. In order to check the existence of reverse causation suggested by previous studies the Hausman test was carried out and different sets of instruments were used as exogenous determinants of health expenditure....