and consequences of occupational safety and health (OSH). First, it synthesizes the available theoretical frameworks used … improve the health and safety of workers. …

Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary …, and empirical evidence on, the economics of risky health behaviors. It describes traditional economic approaches … increase social welfare. The chapter summarizes the literature on the consequences of risky health behaviors for economic …

the effects of air quality on children's health. The IV estimates show that the respiratory illness health care visit rate …. Importantly, by linking the health care data to detailed records of parental background characteristics, we show that children …

onset of chronic diseases. We use a longitudinal data set of individuals born in the first decades of the 20th century. The … functional limitations suffer from the onset of chronic diseases is larger if the individual was born in a recession. The long …

Many developing countries have recently increased health insurance coverage at a large scale. While it is commonly … believed that this has positive effects, to date, it is not well understood through which channels health insurance coverage …. There are two main reasons for this. First, we lack detailed data on health care utilization and health outcomes, and second …

This paper studies the effects of immigration on health. We merge information on individual characteristics from the … longitudinal component of the data to analyze how immigration affects the health of both immigrants and natives over time …. Immigrants are shown to be healthier than natives upon their arrival ("healthy immigrant effect"), but their health deteriorates …

collapses and movements in variables such as health and well-being. Using nationally-representative samples of older people … this massive fall in wealth, measures of health and well-being remained broadly unchanged. However, expectations about … recessions do not have widespread negative effects on health and well-being. …

This paper studies empirically the consequences of retirement on health. We make use of a targeted retirement offer to … was 60 years of age. Estimating the effect of the offer on individuals' health within the age range 56-70, we find support … government health care expenditures. …