reconciled with equity (in the sense that the winners of the coverage increases and the health improvements are the poorer). …

This article aims at investigating the interplay between environmental quality, health and development. We consider an …

How does the retirement age affect the physical and mental health of seniors? We identify this effect based on the 1993 … pension and the number of reference earning years taken to calculate pensions. We use a unique database on health and … even a deterioration in their health between 1999 and 2005. Subsequently, taking the reform as a tool to filter out the …

lie below the Pigovian level (or marginal social damages). This article challenges this finding by arguing that health …

exhibit a too high fertility rate. Furthemore, when health is introduced as another source of externalities, the model shows … that health expenditures have not always to be subsidized. Indeed, the taxation of births plays the role of an indirect … subsidy on health expenditures because it decreases the cost of health relatively to the cost of the quantity of children …

health costs : short birth spacing raises maternal and infant mortality rates. …

This paper estimates the causal effect of perceived job insecurity { i.e. the fear of involuntary job loss { on health … potential endogeneity of job insecurity is not accounted for, the latter appears to deteriorate almost all health outcomes. When … tackling the endogeneity issue by estimating an IV model and dealing with potential weak-instrument issues, the health …

examining the consequences of agricultural primary commodity export on population's health via physical environment degradation …). This environmental degradation from trade worsens population's health (infant and child mortality rates, and life …