This paper presents the first empirical assessment of the causal relationship between social capital and health in … perceived good health. …

This paper presents the first empirical assessment of the causal relationship between social capital and health in … perceived good health. …

This paper complements previous studies on the effects of health on wages by addressing the problems of unobserved … (GSOEP) we find the health variable to suffer from measurement error and a number of tests provide evidence that selection … corrections are necessary. Good health leads to higher wages for men, while there appears to be no significant effect for women …

-effects related to smoking bans, and cigarette prices, and taxes on health behaviors. Our findings show that smoking bans not only had … cigarette prices and taxes affected the health behaviors of disadvantaged population groups. Robustness analyses show that …

This is the first study investigating the causal effect of maternal education on child's health and schooling outcomes … significant effects on schooling outcomes for both sexes. And, we find substantial effects on health behaviour for adolescent …

of social capital on individual self-reported health for eight countries from the Commonwealth of Independent States … consistently estimate the impact of social capital on health. We attempt to circumvent the endogeneity problems by using … of trust is positively and significantly correlated with health, either in pooling estimation or when we rely on IV …

This is the first study investigating the causal effect of maternal education on child's health and schooling outcomes … significant effects on schooling outcomes for both sexes. And, we find substantial effects on health behaviour for adolescent …

We test the relationship between happiness and self-rated health in Italy. The analysis relies on a unique dataset … modelling, we find that happiness is strongly correlated with perceived good health, after controlling for a number of relevant … socio-economic phenomena. Health inequalities based on income, work status and education are relatively contained in respect …