life are quantified in a multidimensional approach of poverty and wealth: Individual income, current health, occupational … supposed. Major findings: An initial rise in life satisfaction can improve income and health, but not job autonomy. However …, even the probability of returning from unemployment to employment can increase. Gender-specific differences are discussed. …

Recently prostate and ovarian cancer has been related to milk consumption. However, existing observational studies …-sectional analyses. This paper takes a step toward estimating of causal effects of milk consumption on cancer by applying panel … are applied. The results indicate fairly well that milk consumption increases both the mortality rate of prostate cancer …

how this income dynamic affects mental health. Using data on all Swedish couples who married in 2001, I show that mental … health is positively associated with own and spousal income. However, it is negatively linked to the wife's relative income … cent. This effect does not appear driven by divorce or spouses being on different income trajectories. …

Religious beliefs and practices influence individual lives and societies in many ways. We study how religion affects … between health and religiosity in the earlier literature are not due to religion promoting health. …

for inpatient care, as the number of days from doctor’s advice until hospital confinement. Given our dependent variables …

Although it has long been conjectured that having physicians in leadership positions is valuable for hospital … three specialties: Cancer, Digestive Disorders, and Heart and Heart Surgery. The personal histories of the 300 chief …-physician managers. The paper finds a strong positive association between the ranked quality of a hospital and whether the CEO is a …

lower survival for acute medical cases; second, that a hospital closure mainly affects the access for rural residents and …This paper analyses the effects of hospital closures in Germany in the context of emergency medical care for patients … the impact of hospital closures between 2006 and 2012 on geographical healthcare access and several patient clinical …