in the human capital of children have higher returns than investments in the human capital of older workers. There is no …

supply of adult AIDS patients receiving treatment; and (2) labor supply of children and adults living in the patients … the patient participating in the labor force and a 35 percent increase in weekly hours worked. Since patient health would …

opposed to good health has a relatively minor effect. Smoking depresses full-time work effort by up to 3.5 percentage points …This paper constructs and estimates a dynamic model of the evolution of health for those over the age of 50 and then … embeds that model of health dynamics in a structural, econometric model of retirement and saving. The health model traces the …

Most private sector workers with employer-provided health insurance have a strong incentive to continue working until … Medicare eligibility in order to maintain group health coverage. However, most government employees have access to retiree … health coverage, which allows them access to group health coverage even if they retire before Medicare eligibility. We study …

Using data from three waves of Add Health we find that being very attractive reduces a young adult's (ages 18 …

the health, income or social capital justifications that are often used for frequently observed positive correlations …

Because the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program is means-tested, with both income limits and asset limits, those …

In this paper, I examine the effect of business cycles on the employment, earnings, and income of persons in different … earnings, hourly earnings, annual hours, annual earnings, family earnings, family transfer income, and total family income. The … effects on family income than individual earnings. The paper examines the stability of these results by comparing evidence …