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 …

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 …

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 …

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

. Our SWB measures encapsulate life satisfaction and mental health. We find that relative income mobility is a significant … predictor of life satisfaction and mental health whether people move upward or downward. For absolute income, mobility is only a … predictor of SWB and mental health outcomes if the person moves downward. We also explore pathways through which income mobility …

death, covering a window of unprecedented size (1912-2000) are merged with historical data on macroeconomic and health …

This discussion paper resulted in an article in <I>Health Economics</I> (2012). Volume 21, issue 4, pages 367-385.<P …> Rapid urbanization could have positive and negative health effects, such that the net impact on population health is not … individual level longitudinal data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey to estimate the net health impact of China …

This paper tries to establish who carries the burden in supporting reproductive health and AIDS programs worldwide. The … assistance in matters of reproductive health and AIDS. This global effort has so far not sufficiently been supported by funds and …