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 …

holidays and other special days or events coinciding with paydays and for general within-month and within-week mortality … constraints. All things considered, our results suggest that an increase in general economic activity upon salary receipt is an …

, extend the empirical approach in two ways. First, we add health as an additional outcome dimension. Second, we apply a semi …

Using several waves of the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), this study analyzes the effect of long work hours … on health and lifestyles in a sample of 18- to 65-year-old Chinese workers. Although working long hours does … significantly increase the probabilities of high blood pressure and poorer reported health, the effects are small. Also small are …

This paper investigates the effects of retirement on various health outcomes. Data stem from the first three waves of …

and preferred hours, the so-called work hours constraints? How does this affect the productivity of workers, their health …

malaria more salient, leading to a change in beliefs about its importance and to an increase in private health investments. …

While previous studies have shown that recessions are associated with better health outcomes and behaviors, the focus … previously established counter-cyclical pattern in health and heath behaviors is held during the Great Recession. Using data from … capturing health and health behaviors, we show that the association between economic deterioration and these outcomes has …