goals : (1) understanding the quantitatively large socioeconomic status-health gradient, and (2) the persistence in health …

The question of how access to services affects health outcomes is critical for policy makers allocating resources … services to investigate whether the expansion resulted in improved health and pregnancy outcomes for women of reproductive age. …

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 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 …

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 …