We study the relationship between employee satisfaction and abnormal stock returns around the world, using lists of the … investing ("SRI") strategies around the world. In particular, they emphasize the importance of taking institutional features …

Using a general equilibrium heterogeneous agent model featuring health production, we quantify the relative … contribution of price distortions in the health market, TFP and other health risks in explaining cross-country differences in … health expenditure (as a share of GDP) and health status. Estimated parameters reveal a substantial price wedge that explains …

We analyze the role of international trade and health coordination in times of a pandemic by building a two …

between national accounts measures and health, particularly in light of the COVID-19 epidemic which may reduce global … globalized world where international transfers of capital and property rights can have enormous effects on GDP, such as the 26 …

-- on biomarkers and health. Nevertheless, we expect that intellectual convergence to happen slowly …

between religion and health. The topic is particularly germane for the health of women and of the elderly, who are much more … likely to be religious. In this paper, I use data from the Gallup World Poll to study the within and between country … relationships between religiosity, age, and gender, as well as the effects of religiosity on a range of health measures and health …

In a recent paper, Acemoglu and Johnson (2007) argue that the large increases in population health witnessed in the 20 … health and income do not affect subsequent economic growth. Using their data we reject this assumption in favor of a model of …, exogenous improvements in health due to technical advances associated with the epidemiological transition appear to have …

During 2006, the Gallup Organization conducted a World Poll that used an identical questionnaire for national samples … of adults from 132 countries. I analyze the data on life satisfaction (happiness) and on health satisfaction and look at … inconsistent relationship with happiness. National income moderates the effects of aging on self-reported health, and the decline …

years. This difference persists despite the remarkable progress in health improvement in the last half century, at least … technical progress (some of which is induced by income and facilitated by education) as the ultimate determinant of health. Such … downplay direct causal mechanisms running from income to health …