We investigate the evolution of health over the life-cycle. We allow for two sources of persistence: unobserved … individual characteristics that trace back to early adulthood and before can have far reaching effects on health. …

We employ data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to investigate income to health causality. To account for … Granger-type causality running from income to health for married men but not for women or single men. These effects are more … unobserved heterogeneity, we focus on the relationship between earnings growth and changes in self-reported health status. Causal …

We investigate the evolution of health inequality over the life-course. Health is modeled as a latent variable that is … Study of Income Dynamics to estimate the model. We estimate that permanent shocks account for under 10% of the total … variation in health for the college educated, but between 35% and 70% of total health variability for people without college …

In this paper, we quantify the effects of health on time allocation. We estimate that improvements in health status … watching TV, sleeping, and consuming other types of leisure. We find that poor health status results in about 300 additional … also find that, for men, better health induces a substitution of market-produced goods for home-produced goods …

Using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we investigate the impact of health on domestic migration within … the United States. We find that, for men below 60 years of age, a move from the middle to the bottom of the health … find evidence that, among older men, there is higher mobility at the top and bottom of the health distribution than there …