Survey data indicate that different dimensions of health affect the wages of men and women in urban Brazil. Height has … a large and significant effect on wages: taller men and women earn more. Body mass index (BMI) is associated with higher … wages of males, especially among the less-educated, suggesting that strenght may be rewarded with higher wages. Low levels …

estimate that technological change along with the increase in the generosity of health insurance may explain independently 53 …% of the rise in health spending (insurance 29% and technology 24%) while income less than 10%. By simultaneously occurring …The authors use a calibrated stochastic life-cycle model of endogenous health spending, asset accumulation and …

This paper sheds light on the causal relationship between education and health outcomes. It combines three surveys …-Probit models, it finds causal evidence that more years of education lead to a lower probability of reporting poor health and lower …

This paper examines wealth data in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). …

Understanding of the substantial disparity in health between low and high socioeconomic status (SES) groups is hampered … part of the observed disparities in health by SES. In their model, lifestyle factors, working conditions, retirement …, living conditions and curative care are mechanisms through which SES, health and mortality are related. Their model predicts …

What are the health impacts of retirement? As talk of raising retirement ages in pensions and social security schemes …. The authors use the Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) dataset to address this question in a … multicountry setting. Statutory retirement ages clearly induce retirement, but are not related to an individual's health. The …

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. …