, living conditions and curative care are mechanisms through which SES, health and mortality are related. Their model predicts …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 …

This paper presents a theory of the demand for health, health investment and longevity, building on the human capital … framework for health and addressing limitations of existing models. It predicts a negative correlation between health investment … and health, that the health of wealthy and educated individuals declines more slowly and that they live longer, that …

effect of breastfeeding on infant mortality. …

This paper is focused on two issues. Firstly, to what extent can we explain the observed mortality decline and secondly …

mortality differences in Cameroon by residence area, mother's education, ethnicity, marital status and union type, religion and … inteplay of those factorson differentials mortality. …

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). …

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 …