significantly negative effect of exposure during the first trimester of gestation on employment outcomes 53 or more years after …

This paper interprets accidents occurring on the way to and from work as negative health shocks to identify the causal … effect of health on labor market outcomes. We argue that in our sample of exactly matched treated and control workers, these … health shocks are quasi-randomly assigned. A fixed-effects difference-in-differences approach estimates a negative and …

flexible multi-state Mixed Proportional Hazard specifications for transition rates between employment, unemployment, and … welfare/non-participation. Our main finding is that after longer periods of employment with high income, individuals …' transition rates from unemployment to employment increase. Longer periods of non-employment generally decrease future transition …

outcomes such as medical care costs, educational attainment, employment, wages, and crime. It also reviews the research on …Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary …, and empirical evidence on, the economics of risky health behaviors. It describes traditional economic approaches …

rates and school performance, health, labor supply, and lifetime income. Males and high ability children gain significantly …

This paper investigates the sensitivity of the intergenerational transmission of health to exogenous changes in income …, education and public health, changes that are often delivered by economic growth. It uses individual survey data on 2.24 million … maternal and child health as well as in aggregate economic conditions. The country-level panel is exploited to control for …

unimodal one, the evolution of the health distribution has preceded that of income, global inequality and poverty has decreased …, global inequality and poverty would be substantially underestimated if the dependence between the income and health …