to linked data from health surveys, tax files and the mortality register to estimate the causal effect of education on …While there is no doubt that health is strongly correlated with education, whether schooling exerts a causal impact on … health is not yet firmly established. We exploit Dutch compulsory schooling laws in a Regression Discontinuity Design applied …

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

This study analyses the relation between perceived health status and intertemporal choice. We use data from experiments … time preference are not considered simultaneously. We correct for differential mortality risk, risk aversion and …

studies we find that among the early variables recorded at age 12 the only significant determinant of adult mortality is …

and the mortality data. The second section discusses the variation of mortality rates with age in the population and in …

environment, human health, socio-economic effects, population growth, and differential consequences for developed and developing …

Anchoring vignettes are increasingly used to identify and correct heterogeneity in the reporting of health, work … valid under a less stringent assumption. We apply these tests to cognitive functioning and mobility related health problems … using data from the English Longitudinal Survey of Ageing. Response consistency is rejected for both health domains …

We estimate the impact of health and financial incentives on the retirement transitions of older workers in Spain …. Individual measures of pension wealth, peak and accrual values are constructed using labor market histories and health shocks are … derived as changes in a composite health stock measure over time. We examine labour market exits into both old age retirement …

This paper investigates the impact of parental education on child health outcomes. To identify the causal effect we … leaving age by one year had little effect on the health of their offspring. Schooling did however improve economic … child health are at most modest. …

damaging to health. Our measure of self-assessed health is highly correlated with subsequent mortality and the causal harmful …Rapid urbanization could have positive and negative health effects, such that the net impact on population health is … and individual level longitudinal data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey to estimate the net health impact of …