We study the contribution of health-related behaviors to the health-education gradient by distinguishing between short … behaviors in the health production function. Focusing on self-reported poor health as our health outcome, we find that education … has a protective effect for European males and females aged 50+. We also find that the mediating effects of health …

health - the paper also studies the impact of context on risk attitudes, finding a strong but imperfect correlation across …

is affected by the human capital of her colleagues. This is the case for goods such as health, education, legal services …

, occupational choice, wages, and health. Using panel data from Vietnam and an instrumental variables strategy, we evaluate the … reduced schooling, particularly for girls. We find no significant effects of child labour on several indicators of health …

deterioration of the health care system, changes in diet and obesity, and material deprivation fail to explain the increase in …

development effort. We find that patent protection in high income countries is associated with increases in research and … development (R&D) effort; in other words, patent protection works in high-income countries to induce R&D. However, the … "neglected" diseases that are concentrated in low-income countries. …

cardiovascular health. We further test potential adverse health effects of unfair pay using data from a large representative data set …. Complementary to our experimental findings we find a strong and highly significant association between health outcomes, in … particular cardiovascular health, and fairness of pay. …

A positive relationship between socio-economic status (SES) and health, the so-called \health-wealth gradient", is … repeatedly found in most industrialized countries with similar levels of health care technology and economic welfare. This study … analyzes causality from health to wealth (health causation) and from wealth to health (wealth or social causation) for elderly …