In many health domains, we are concerned that observed links - for example, between "healthy" behaviors and good … vary over time. When a particular health behavior becomes more recommended, the take-up of the behavior may be larger among … people with other positive health behaviors. Such changes in selection would make it even more difficult to learn about …

-- Health and health care -- Dimensons of health in the elderly population / David M. Cutler and Mary Beth Landrum ; comment … of the causal pathways from socioeconomic status to health / Till Stowasser, Florian Heiss, Daniel McFadden, and Joachim … Winter ; comment, Robert J. Willis -- Childhood health and differences in late-life health outcomes between England and the …

Economists use micro-based and macro-based approaches to assess the effects of health on economic growth. The micro … economic return on health. We reconcile these two strands of literature by showing that the point estimate of the macroeconomic … effect of health is quantitatively close to that found by aggregating the microeconomic effects, when carefully specifying …