suggests that this may have negative long-term health effects on their offspring. Building upon the work of Almond and Mazumder …’s pregnancy have a poorer general health and are sick more often than people who were not exposed. This effect is especially … pronounced among older people, who, when exposed, also report health problems more often that are indicative of coronary heart …

updating the existing evidence with a snapshot of the welfare mix in 2007/2008 across five different welfare sectors: Education …, Health, Housing, Income Maintenance and Social Security and Personal Social Services. The paper systematically explores who …

We investigate if there is a causal link between education and health knowledge using data from the 1984/85 and 1991 … education significantly increases health knowledge, with a one-year increase in schooling increasing the health knowledge index … due to the education reforms did not significantly affect health knowledge: a one-year increase in schooling is estimated …

poverty compels work whereas a positive wage elasticity would favour the alternative view that children work because the … concentrated on the income elasticity, but this tells us nothing other than that leisure (or education) is a normal good. Using a … boys, consistent with the view that boys work on account of the compulsions of poverty. This is less clear in the case of …

It has long been accepted that lack of social participation in wider society is one aspect or one definition of poverty … important for those whose circumstances make them already more vulnerable to marginalisation, exclusion or poverty. For example …, social interaction has been argued to be conducive to better outcomes for those with health problems; and there is an …

This paper addresses the use of health economics in relation to posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in the Armed …’ associated with PTSD and treatments require the use of scarce resources. Health economics provides tools (including cost …

six weeks in both groups without any significant difference between them. Health-related quality of life, as measured by …