Recent health care centralization trends raise the important question of the extent to which the quality of emergency … medical services may offset effects from decreased access to emergency health care. This article analyzes whether residential … encountered empirical difficulties relating to potential endogenous health-based spatial sorting of involved agents and data …

the use of a whole set of preventive care treatments. Analysis is based on the last three waves of the Survey of Health … that poor and less educated people are more likely than the better off to use preventive care late, e.g. when health shocks … occurred or health problems display already symptoms. Finally, results suggest that access to treatments within a specialist …

British Household Panel Survey. Results confirm that health shocks are a determinant of retirement age and are quantitatively … health limitations and a measure of latent health status obtained from a generalized ordered probit model. Further, our … results provide evidence that, for women, the health status of their partner impacts on their retirement decisions; and effect …

This paper investigates the causal relationship between ill-health and retirement among older working individuals. We …- 2005) of the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey. Our results show that health plays an … important role in individual retirement decisions and that negative shocks to health greatly increase the hazard of retirement …

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 …

pollution, crime, and noise on self-assessed health, presence of chronic conditions and limitations in daily activities. We … to health, through instrumental variable methods and several endogeneity tests. The main novelty is the sound estimation … of the neighborhood effect on health using observational data, which has the advantage of providing general results that …

This paper presents the first empirical assessment of the causal relationship between social capital and health in … perceived good health. …

We examine whether income shocks affect a range of health outcomes and a preventative behaviour. We instrument income …-cyclical effect of income on health. A ten percent increase in income reduces by 0.2 the number of illnesses. A further finding is the …

This paper investigates the relationships between social circumstances, individual behaviours, and ill-health later in …' smoking and health outcomes (lifespan and time-to-cancer) is jointly estimated, using the 1984/5 British Health and Lifestyle … behaviours as well as health outcomes. Results from this discrete latent factor model are found to be substantially different to …