This paper estimates the long-term health effects of Vietnam-Era military service using Australia's National … conscription lotteries for identification. Our primary contribution is the quality and breadth of our health outcomes. We use … significant detrimental effects on a number of morbidity measures. Hearing and mental health appear to be particularly affected. …

economic conditions at the local and national level, with statistical selection of optimal local area. We apply this approach … to quarterly British data on chronic health conditions for those of working age over the period 2002-2016. We find strong … and robust counter-cyclical relationships for overall chronic health, and for five broad types of health conditions …

environment affect workers' perceived job security, and the impact of job security on measures of mental and physical health. To … movements drive changes in perceived job security, which in turn significantly and substantively affects the mental health of … workers. In contrast, we find no effects on physical health. Our results imply that the estimated welfare costs of recessions …

Passive smoking is a major public health issue. This paper documents the main risk factors that determine children … exposure on child health. Such information is valuable to policy-makers when deciding upon the amount of resources to direct … of children drawn from the Health Survey for England, for whom we match parental and household smoking and demographic …

Economists rely heavily on self-reported measures of health status to examine the relationship between income and … health. In this paper we directly compare survey responses to a self-reported measure of health that is commonly available in … nationally-representative individual and household surveys, with objective measures of the same health condition. Our particular …

The socio-economic gradient in health remains a controversial topic in economics and other social sciences. In this … paper we develop a new duration model that allows for unobserved persistent individual-specific health shocks and provides … leads to a 12% decline in the probability of death. We find a large role for unobserved health shocks, with 5-years of …

In an influential study Case et al. (2002) documented a positive relationship between family income and child health in … health income gradient in England, which has a comprehensive publicly-funded National Health Service (NHS) founded on the … twin principles of health care being free at the point of delivery and equality of access for the whole population. Our …

is predicted to increase with ageing populations, more people living alone, and with chronic health conditions. Despite … financial stress is strongly associated with worse social health. Our results are robust to a panel analysis that accounts for …

Studies using education policy reforms to isolate causal effects of education on health produce mixed evidence. We … analyse an unusually large sample and study chronic health conditions. For identification, we use two major education reforms … method generated precise estimates of the impact of education on a comprehensive range of health conditions. Our results …