This paper analyses the role of health on exits out of and entries into employment using data from the first twelve … health on the hazard of becoming non-employed and on the hazard of becoming employed. The results show that general health …, measured by a variable that captures health limitations and by a constructed latent health index, affects entries into and …

LATE for schooling indicate the presence of a large and negative bias in the least square/probit estimates of schooling-health …

This paper considers the simultaneous explanation of mortality risk, health and lifestyles, using a reduced-form system … estimates to be retrieved. By applying the theory of inference functions the parameters of each lifestyle, health and mortality …

This paper uses the British Health and Lifestyle Survey (1984-1985) data and the longitudinal follow-up of May 2003 to …-economic inequality in health. A behavioural model, which relates premature mortality to a set of observ- able and unobservable factors … equations for mortality, morbidity and lifestyles. In order to detect inequality in the distribution of health within the …

While a growing literature examining the relationship between income and health expenditures suggests that health care …

the government as the health care purchaser and principal of a two-tier hierarchy, and two hospital specialists, the …

We model a system akin to the British National Health Service in which general practictioners (GPs) are paid from …

. Our SWB measures encapsulate life satisfaction and mental health. We find that relative income mobility is a significant … predictor of life satisfaction and mental health whether people move upward or downward. For absolute income, mobility is only a … predictor of SWB and mental health outcomes if the person moves downward. We also explore pathways through which income mobility …

smoking. We estimate a latent factor model for smoking initiation, cessation and mortality risk using the British Health and … favourable (parents are non-smokers). The health gain from not smoking (not attributable to parental smoking behaviour) is about …