beneficial effect on the health of adolescent girls …

with lasting effects on health status, affecting individuals as they age. We take advantage of data on occupational … instruments may have indirect effects on later health, we also control for respondent's pre-labor market health, education and … substantial evidence that a blue collar occupation at labor force entry is associated with decrements to later health status …

shown that non-work physical activity has a positive impact on health while work physical activity has a negative impact on … health. Many prior studies have relied primarily on leisure-time physical activity, which typically constitutes only about 10 … gender differentials in health. About 25-46% of the differentials in non-work physical activity can be attributed to …

(education, income, and health insurance coverage) on life expectancy and medical expenditure using longitudinal state-level data …

Financial incentives have been shown to have strong positive short-run effects for problematic health behaviors, but …

satisfaction. Apart from a reduction in self-reported pain, we estimate precise null effects on mental and physical health …

medical preventive measures improve expected health, they do not save money. Various lifestyle and early childhood … interventions, however, may both save money and improve health. Second, preventive measures, including medical and lifestyle …, generalizations in everyday discourse about the value of prevention can be overly broad. Third, health insurance coverage for medical …

occupational status is related to the health transitions of 30 to 59 year-old U.S. males. A recent history of blue …-collar employment predicts a substantial increase in the probability of transitioning from very good into bad self-assessed health …, relative to white-collar employment, but with no evidence of occupational differences in movements from bad to very good health …

There is a strong, positive and well-documented correlation between education and health outcomes. There is much less … evidence on the extent to which this correlation reflects the causal effect of education on health - the parameter of interest … education on health. Our approach exploits two changes to British compulsory schooling laws that generated sharp differences in …