effect of military service on lifetime earnings, wages, and employment are obtained by comparing men born before July 1, 1937 …

social insurance programs. As we do not find additional screening effects on health at the point of the award decision, we …We examine the targeting effects of increased scrutiny in the screening of Disability Insurance (DI) applications using … composition of the pool of applicants. We find that the health of those who are not discouraged from applying is worse than those …

significantly negative effect of exposure during the first trimester of gestation on employment outcomes 53 or more years after …

of education on health behaviors. Using the number of academic track schools in a state as an instrumental variable for … years of schooling, we investigate the causal effect of schooling on health behavior such as smoking and related outcomes …

absence from work, we also consider effects on doctor/hospital visits and subjective health indicators. We also add to the … terms) at higher quantiles, meaning that the reform predominantly reduced long durations of absence. In terms of health, the … negative effects on health outcomes or perceived liquidity constraints …

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 …

causal effect of undernourishment on later-life health. We develop a Two-Sample Instrumental Variable (TSIV) estimator that …'s effect on later life health found in previous studies. We also find that exposure to famine-induced hunger early in life … leads to worse health among females fifty years later. This effect is much larger than the reduced-form effect found in …

considered as rich in a multidimensional setting. We use this framework to analyze the role of wealth, health and education, in … driven by health and to a lesser extent by wealth …

information on demographics, socio-economic conditions, life events, health, and cognitive functioning. We exploit exogenous … consecutive shocks later in life exceeds the sum of the separate effects, and whether economic and health shocks later in life …

Background: Nutrition in utero and infancy may causally affect health and mortality at old ages. Until now, very few …