account (covering education and training), and a health account (covering insurance against sickness and disability). Unlike …, cushioning people against economic risk, ensuring efficient provision of health and education services, providing social safety …

-section of data on international cross-holdings of assets and environmental treaties. Our results support the notion that …

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 …

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