earnings. This paper examines the role of health at birth in determining academic achievement in childhood, which may provide …-stage least squares (NEC2SLS) estimator that draws on internal instruments from alternative dimensions of the multi-level panel … effects concentrated in the low birthweight range. Infant health measures appear to explain little of the well …

In Scandinavia, the provision of health care services has been, almost entirely, the responsibility of the public … health care system. However, in the last five to seven years there has been remarkable growth in the private health care … market. These health care services are obtained normally through insurance contracts. In this paper, I seek explanations for …

We estimate and decompose family income-related inequality in child health in the US and analyze its dynamics using the … income-related health mobility index recently introduced byAllanson et al., 2010. Data come from the 1997, 2002, and 2007 … waves of the Child Development Supplement (CDS) of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). The findings show that family …

The impact of global climate change on health is not well understood. Besides the direct channel of increasing … risk of health problems later, implying even larger long run societal costs. Results confirm that exposure to extreme …

decreases, and the two have different implications for human health. An alternative measure for net current biological …