We estimate the effects of having a child in poor health on the mother's receipt of both cash assistance and in …-kind public support in the form of food, health care, and shelter. We control for a rich set of covariates, include state fixed … effects, and test for the potential endogeneity of child health. Mothers with children in poor health are 5 percentage points …

The objective of this paper is to investigate the impact of the length of maternity leave on maternal health in a … sample of working mothers. Two measures of depression and a measure of overall health are used to represent maternal health … and mental health as measured by frequent outpatient visits during the first six months after childbirth …

genes and other pregnancy-specific health or social conditions …

infant health,' few health economics studies based in developed countries have considered breastfeeding as an important … health behavior that can be influenced by labor market decisions and by public policies. This study examines the effect of …

The casual links between health and economic resources have long concerned social scientists. We use four waves of data … from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to analyze the impact of wealth upon an individual's health status. The difficulty … likely that changes in health affect wealth as vice versa. We argue that inheritance is a suitable instrument for the change …

the worker's health. However, the many studies examining the realtionship between health and retirement have failed to … reach agreement on the relative importance of health in comparison to financial variables. Efforts to do so have been … hampered by the difficulty of correctly measuring health status. Much of the concern centers on the fear that subjective …

consumption. We investigate whether an aggregate health production function can help to explain the substantial fluctuations in … the rate of increase in longevity since 1960. We view longevity as the output of the health production function, and … models using annual U.S. time-series data on life expectancy, health expenditure, and medical innovation. Reliable annual …

This paper provides new evidence on how household labor supply responds to fatal and severe non-fatal health shocks in … families' health and labor market outcomes, and construct counterfactuals to affected households by using households that … experience the same shock but a few years in the future. We find that fatal health shocks lead to an immediate increase in the …

2008 and substantial recovery by 2012, to investigate the extent to which the effects of a recession on health behaviors … are lingering or short-lived and to explore trajectories in health behaviors from pre-crisis boom, to crisis, to recovery …. Health-compromising behaviors (smoking, heavy drinking, sugared soft drinks, sweets, fast food, and tanning) declined during …