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 …

Increases in human stature are seen as a key indicator of improvement in the average health of populations. The … increased by 11cm--representing a dramatic improvement in health. Interestingly, there was a distinct acceleration in the period … and falling family size had more modest effects. Improvements in health care are hard to identify and the effects of the …

We study the short-run effect of involuntary job loss on comprehensive measures of public health costs. We focus on job … loss induced by plant closure, thereby addressing the reverse causality problem of deteriorating health leading to job loss … as job displacements due to plant closure are unlikely caused by workers' health status, but potentially have important …

health - the paper also studies the impact of context on risk attitudes, finding a strong but imperfect correlation across …This paper presents new evidence on the distribution of risk attitudes in the population, using a novel set of survey … representative sample of 450 subjects, and find that the general risk question is a good predictor of actual risk-taking behavior. We …

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 …

Strengthening the relationship of accountability between health service providers and citizens is by many people viewed … as critical for improving access to and quality of health care. How this is to be achieved, and whether it works, however … communities began to more extensively monitor the provider, both the quality and quantity of health service provision improved …