We aim to disentangle the relative contributions of (i) cognitive ability, and (ii) education on health and mortality …

Economic theory predicts that adverse shocks during early childhood have detrimental short- and long-run consequences … for children’s development. We examine this hypothesis by analyzing the short-and long-run effects on children’s health … children’s education - not, however, on health. The effects on children’s education aggravate over time. Empirical evidence …

Health care financing and funding are usually analyzed in isolation. This paper combines the corresponding strands of … of three modes of health care financing, namely, optimal income taxation, proportional income taxation, and insurance …. Considering a standard multi-task agency framework we show that optimal health care policies will generally differ across …

earnings. This paper examines the role of health at birth in determining academic achievement in childhood, which may provide … effects concentrated in the low birthweight range. Infant health measures appear to explain little of the well …

This paper examines the effects of health-oriented food tax reforms on the distribution of tax payments, food demand … and health outcomes. Unlike earlier work, we also take into account the uncertainty related to both demand estimation and … health estimates and report the confidence intervals for the overall health effects instead of only point estimates. A sugar …

Despite the widespread provision of retiree health insurance for public sector workers, little attention has been paid … to its effects on employee retirement. This is in contrast to the large literature on health-insurance-induced “job …-lock” in the private sector. I use the introduction of retiree health insurance for public school employees in combination with …

economic theory of individual utility. …