We use new PSID data on consumption and health, along with information on annual sick time, to estimate a structural … labor supply model that incorporates a health capital stock with the traditional human capital learning-by-doing model. The … estimates show strong evidence of learning by doing as well as strong persistence in health. However, the estimates reveal that …

to test the corollary that health capital responds to life expectancy. …

women. Using data from the Add Health, we find that sexual violence against women is associated with a 6.6 percent lower …

sibling fixed effects models, we find that the effects of early health on cognitive development are essentially constant … invariant to measures of school quality. We conclude that the effects of early health on adult outcomes are therefore set very …

This paper analyzes long-term effects of skilled-worker immigration on productivity for the Huguenot migration to … losses due to plagues during the Thirty Years' War. We combine Huguenot immigration lists from 1700 with Prussian firm …-level data on the value of inputs and outputs in 1802 in a unique database to analyze the effects of skilled immigration to …