We investigate if there is a causal link between education and health knowledge using data from the 1984/85 and 1991 …/92 waves of the UK Health and Lifestyle Survey (HALS). Uniquely, the survey asks respondents what they think are the main … causes of ten common health conditions, and we compare these answers to those given by medical professionals to form an index …

enhancing the assignment of workers to jobs in the face of firm productivity heterogeneity and skill-biased technological change …. It shows that in order to do so policy needs to be a function of the properties of the firm’s productivity distribution … emerging from the analysis is that the degree of firm productivity heterogeneity, in terms of skewness and variance, matters …

point. In this paper, the structural parameters of this model are estimated using three simulation-based estimators. In a …

for the failures of central economic planning. His analysis that aggregate statistics necessarily abstract from contextual …

affect both consumption capacities and needs while the risk of deteriorating health might increase subjective mortality …The analysis in this paper focuses on the impact of health on the savings and consumption decisions of the elderly. In … principle, there are at least five alternative channels through which health may affect consumption and savings. Ill health may …

dominated by studies that consider whether poverty is a risk factor for PND. Income, socio-economic status and education are all … inconsistent risk factors for PND. Clues to better ways of framing and capturing economic stress in PND research is found in the …

Health care spending has risen steadily in most countries, becoming a concern for decision-makers worldwide … their focus beyond costs solely to include consideration of whether medical technology results in better value in health …

Do wealth shocks affect the health of the elderly in developed countries? The economic literature is skeptical about … also matter for the health of wealthy retirees in the US. I exploit the booms and busts in the US stock market as a natural … experiment that generated considerable gains and losses in the wealth of stock-holding retirees. Using data from the Health and …