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 …

We estimate the impact of health and financial incentives on the retirement transitions of older workers in Spain …. Individual measures of pension wealth, peak and accrual values are constructed using labor market histories and health shocks are … derived as changes in a composite health stock measure over time. We examine labour market exits into both old age retirement …

-related inequality of self-assessed health evolve over the life cycle and differ across generations in 11 EU countries. There is a … moderate and steady decline in mean health until the age of 70 or so and a steep acceleration in the rate of health … economic and social development, the average health of younger generations is significantly better than that of older …

-438.<P> A strong relationship between health and socioeconomic status is firmly established. Yet, partly due to the … allows investigation of whether the socioeconomically disadvantaged, on top of a lower health level, experience a sharper … deterioration of their health over the life cycle. We show that in the Netherlands, as in the US, the socioeconomic gradient in …

Ill-health can be expected to reduce employment and income. But are the effects sustained over time? Do they differ …, on employment and income up to six years after the health shock using linked Dutch hospital and tax register data. On … either employment or income. The distribution of ill-health contributes to income inequality: a health shock is both more …

This discussion paper resulted in the publication 'Wealth and Health Behavior: Testing the Concept of a Health Cost … phenomenon by developing a theory of health behavior, and exploiting both lottery winnings and inheritances to test the theory …. We distinguish between the direct monetary cost and the indirect health cost (value of health lost) of unhealthy …

> While there is no doubt that health is strongly correlated with education, whether schooling exerts a causal impact on … health is not yet firmly established. We exploit Dutch compulsory schooling laws in a Regression Discontinuity Design applied … to linked data from health surveys, tax files and the mortality register to estimate the causal effect of education on …

Understanding of the substantial disparity in health between low and high socioeconomic status (SES) groups is hampered … disparities in health by SES. In our model, lifestyle factors, working conditions, retirement, living conditions and curative care … are mechanisms through which SES, health and mortality are related. Our model predicts a widening and possibly a …

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 presents a unified theory of human capital with both health capital and, what we term, skill capital … endogenously determined within the model. By considering joint investment in health capital and in skill capital, the model … highlights similarities and differences in these two important components of human capital. Health is distinct from skill: health …