Increased health care spending has placed pressure on public and private payers to prioritize spending. Cost …

find a quarter of students violated the order. Yet, neither risk preference, altruism, nor preexisting health conditions …-existing health conditions may not voluntarily comply, resulting in higher health care congestion than otherwise expected. …

This study estimates the causal effect of working hours on health. We deal with the endogeneity of working hours … on subjective and several objective health measures. The effects are mainly driven by women and parents of minor children …

decreases, and the two have different implications for human health. An alternative measure for net current biological …

pressure strongly associated with adverse health outcomes. In line with theories of compensating differentials, work pressure …

This paper examines the effect of e-waste dumping sites on early child health. We focus on two major dumping sites in …

The public health care systems in the Nordic countries provide high quality care almost free of charge to all citizens …. However, social inequalities in health persist. Previous research has, for example, documented substantial educational …

We present a generalized solution to Grossman’s model of health capital (1972), relaxing the widely used assumption … that individuals can adjust their health stock instantaneously to an “optimal” level without adjustment costs. The Grossman … model then predicts the existence of a health threshold above which individuals do not demand medical care. Our generalized …