This paper reviews the literature on the impact of work on health. We consider work along two dimensions: (i) the … employment or not, independent of the number of hours worked. We show that most of the evidence on the ne gative health impact of … amount of work they provide. In essence, what is de trimental to health is not so much work per se as much as the gap which …

Height is consulted as a latent indicator of early nutrition and lifetime health status. Height is observed to increase … in recent decades in populations where per capita national income has increased and public health activities have grown …. Height is determined by genetic make up and realized in part through satisfactory nutrition and health related care and …

reduced poverty are closely associated with improvements in a population's child nutrition, adult health, and schooling …

Using data from the Health Survey for England and the English Longitudinal Study on Ageing, we estimate the causal … effect of schooling on health. Identification comes from two nation wide increases in British compulsory school leaving age … exogenous variation in schooling by using biomarkers as measures of health outcomes in addition to self-reported measures. We …

This study considers the links between primary indicators of health and individual labor productivity in Colombia and … explores how additional public expenditures on health may improve individuals' health. Sample statistics how that illness …

inequality in many low-income countries, and thus schooling and health are analyzed here as indicators of productivity and … foreign exchange restrictions are found to be inversely associated with trade, and with the levels of education and health … schooling and health, and delay the equalization of these human capital investments between men and women. Liberalization of …

used to improve health? Self-reported functional activity limitation due to illness is considered as an indicator of … instrumental variable estimation approach is used where local food prices and health services instrument for disability days that …

overall health inequality according to the different normative principles. Our results suggest that, in practice, the … contributions of circumstances and efforts to explained health inequality. …

Comparisons among countries can help to identify opportunities for the reduction of inequalities in health. We compared … the magnitude of inequalities in mortality and self-assessed health among 22 countries in all parts of Europe. …