models two existing hypotheses on the correlation between health and education. The estimation results strongly support the … interdependence between health and education. In particular, the estimated model indicates that an individual's education, health …'s education by 1.4 years. Policy experiments indicate that a health expenditure subsidy would have a larger impact on educational …

It can be claimed that education is simply a normal consumption good and that like all other normal goods, an increase …

smokers from merged National Health Interview Survey and Medicare claims information. Consistent with our theory, we find that …The contribution of cigarette smoking to national health expenditures is thought to be large, but our current …

key links between pollution, human health, and labor productivity. Together, these assumptions imply that the benefits of … regulation to provide benefits through several different channels, including improved health or productivity. The model shows … that when the benefits of reduced pollution come in the form of improved health or productivity, the benefits do affect …

finding, arguing that the health benefits from reduced pollution will also interact with pre-existing taxes, possibly causing … for health effects by representing environmental quality and leisure as substitutes in utility. The present paper employs … considers health effects. It shows that interactions with health effects from pollution actually will tend to reduce the optimal …

economic consequences of women's rights documents that more rights for women lead to more spending on health and children … perspectives, we discuss the theory of Doepke and Tertilt (2009), where an increase in the return to human capital induces men to …

response of schooling to risk. We develop a model that incorporates, dynamic complementarity in the education production … risk-reducing effect of the NREGS may offset adverse effects on child education that were evident during the NREGS phase …

variation to provide initial estimates of how this eligibility affects the health status of non-Medicaid-eligible SSDI …-reported health of this population, with suggestive evidence that this improvement is stronger as underwriting restrictions increase … and among SSDI beneficiaries with mental health conditions. The estimated effect is highly robust to alternative scaling …

budget, health spending was hit particularly hard, declining by more than one third in just five years. This paper has two … goals: establish the facts about health inputs, outputs and outcomes during the Greek crisis, and explore the connection … between budget cuts and health outcomes. Health spending and inputs were very high in Greece before the crisis: in several …