education and health. We concentrate on ergonomic, environmental, psychical, social and time demands. Merging the German … dataset to analyze the mediating role of occupational demands in the relationship between education and health status on the … one hand and education and health behavior (BMI and smoking) on the other. We base our analyses on the entire working …

, and health worker visits in rural India. We estimate the effect of minority representation on the frequency of visits to … villages by health workers by exploiting the state variation in the share of seats reserved for the two groups in state … legislative assemblies mandated by the Constitution of India. Using data from state and village level surveys on fifteen major …

We investigate whether politician gender influences policy outcomes in India. We focus upon antenatal and postnatal … public health provision since the costs of poor services in this domain are disproportionately borne by women. Accounting for … are more likely to build public health facilities and encourage antenatal care, institutional delivery and immunization …

specifications similar to those in the existing literature, this paper finds a similar result for India, which is that state health …There are severe inequalities in health in the world, poor health being concentrated amongst poor people in poor … countries. Poor countries spend a much smaller share of national income on health expenditure than do richer countries. What …

due to the burning of bituminous coal for heat. We estimate the effects of this bituminous coal consumption on mortality … rates in the U.S. during the mid-20th century. Coal consumption varied considerably during the 20th century due to coal … of confounding factors, we use a triple-differences identification strategy that relies on variation in coal consumption …

in environmental conditions and air quality. While air pollution is a serious threat to health in most developing … energy, has emerged as an increasingly attractive source of fuel, which could address some of the environmental and health …

.3%; temporary employment also influences health. Migrant status – with differences among regions of origin – significantly affects … jointly determined is not valid for immigrants: i.e. for them working conditions is not a matter of choice in terms of health. …