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 …

In this paper, the author assesses the population health effects in Malaysia of air pollution generated by a widespread … results show that the smoke haze from these fires had a deleterious effect on population health in Malaysia. …

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

part of the observed disparities in health by SES. In their model, lifestyle factors, working conditions, retirement …Understanding of the substantial disparity in health between low and high socioeconomic status (SES) groups is hampered …, 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 …

, using six biennial waves from the Health and Retirement Study. They find the dynamics of the presence of pain is central to …

In this paper we examine disparities in the ability to function among older Americans. We place special emphasis on two … goals : (1) understanding the quantitatively large socioeconomic status-health gradient, and (2) the persistence in health …