We investigate if there is a causal link between education and health knowledge using data from the 1984/85 and 1991 …/92 waves of the UK Health and Lifestyle Survey (HALS). Uniquely, the survey asks respondents what they think are the main … causes of ten common health conditions, and we compare these answers to those given by medical professionals to form an index …

claims from Vietnam veterans, raising concerns about costs as well as health. We use the draft lottery to study the long …-term effects of Vietnam-era military service on health and work in the 2000 Census. These estimates show no significant overall …

This paper is a contribution to the second World Happiness Report. It makes five main points: 1. Mental health is the … biggest single predictor of life-satisfaction. This is so in the UK, Germany and Australia even if mental health is included … health does, and much more than unemployment and income do. Income explains 1% of the variance of life-satisfaction or less …

Do wealth shocks affect the health of the elderly in developed countries? The economic literature is skeptical about … also matter for the health of wealthy retirees in the US. I exploit the booms and busts in the US stock market as a natural … experiment that generated considerable gains and losses in the wealth of stock-holding retirees. Using data from the Health and …

incentives in health. We consider how incentives affect effort in a physical activity task - and then how they spillover to …

The question of whether there is a lasting effect of childhood experience on mental health has eluded causal … one standard deviation change in mental health due to idiosyncratic experience at age 9 will still be present three years … later. Extending the analysis, we find such persistence to vary with age at impact, gender, and mental health sub …

's results are robust to the inclusion of controls such as education, IQ, physical health, height, self-esteem, and later …

can provide better health knowledge and general education to parents, a private healthcare sector can arise to meet demand … treatment services, we find that public and private health systems are "equally unequal", that is, both tend to favor children … facts contrast with a common view that a much-expanded public health sector is necessary to reduce child mortality. Instead …