show long-lasting health impacts. Can these benefits hold when these programs are offered to all children in contexts with … universal healthcare? We evaluate the short- and medium-term health impacts of Sure Start, a universal integrated ECI in England … disadvantaged areas and likely driven by both health and non-health services. …

We examine how parental health shocks affect children's non-cognitive skills. Based on a German mother-and-child data … base, we draw on significant changes in self-reported parental health as an exogenous source of health variation to … identify effects on outcomes for children at ages of three and six years. At the age of six, we observe that maternal health …

Both health and income inequalities have been shown to be much greater in Britain than in Germany. One of the main … lower income groups. Inequality analysis reveals that while the distribution of health shocks is more concentrated among …, both health shocks and early retirement are more concentrated among those with low incomes. We use comparable longitudinal …

, self-reported health, and presence of chronic illness as health measures. After controlling for initial health conditions …

child health can provide an important explanation for disparities in children's human capital development across different …-cognitive skills. We analyze data from economic experiments with preschoolers and their mothers to investigate whether child health can … willingness to compete with others. Our findings suggest that health problems arenegatively related to children's willingness to …

The issue of whether employees who work more hours than they want to suffer adverse health consequences is important … question by analyzing the impact of the discrepancy between actual and desired work hours on self-perceived health outcomes in …-hour mismatches (i.e., differences between actual and desired hours) have negative effects on workers´ health. In particular, we show …

introduction of pension benefits on the health status, health behaviors, and healthcare utilization of rural Chinese adults age 60 … and above. The results point to three main conclusions. First, in addition to improvements in self-reported health, older … adults with access to the pension program experienced significant improvements in several important measures of health …

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 …

improvement selfreported measures of native workers’ health. These findings, together with the evidence that immigrants report … lower injury rates than natives, suggest that the reallocation of tasks could reduce overall health care costs and the human …