This paper investigates the role of pain in affecting self-reported work disability and employment of elderly workers …, using six biennial waves from the Health and Retirement Study. They find the dynamics of the presence of pain is central to … the dynamic patterns of employment. …

This paper analyzes the effect of quality and accessibility of health services and other public infrastructure on the … health of children in Ghana. We focus on child survival, child height and weight using data from the Ghana Living Standards … Survey. The results suggest an important role for public health policy in eliminating the rural-urban disparities in health …

crisis on labor market outcomes. Aggregate employment has remained remarkably robust through the crisis although there has … been significant switching within sectors. The drama of the crisis lies not in aggregate employment but in real hourly …