partial insurance of parental investments against permanent income shocks, but the magnitude of the estimated responses is … small. We cannot reject the hypothesis full insurance against temporary shocks. Another interpretation of our findings is … that there is very little insurance available, but the fact that skill is a non-separable function of parental investments …

In this paper we look at the relationship between health and income as mediated by "lifestyle" choices; that is, a set … of behaviours which are thought to influence health and are generally considered to invoke a substantial degree of free … choice. The main underlying assumption is that individuals are co-producers of their own health. We first present a …

: worker health. To study this question, we use data on lesser-skilled workers from the 1993-2014 Behavioral Risk Factor … wage increases lead to improvements in overall worker health. In fact, we find some evidence that minimum wage increases … may decrease some aspects of health, especially among unemployed male workers. We also find evidence that increases reduce …

This paper provides new estimates of the medium and long-term impacts of Head Start on the health and behavioral … neighboring a single discontinuity). Participation in the program reduces the incidence of behavioral problems, serious health …

and car insurance using data from the UK. The main empirical results are: - higher labor income risk induces a higher … demand for car insurance. - the effects of increases in labor income risk after 1979 seem to be more than offset by a more …

HIV-positive men's treatment consumption and health outcomes. To establish a causal relationship between reviews and … for individuals who are in worse health and thus face stronger incentives to choose more effective medication despite side … health investments in the presence of adverse treatment side effects. …

We investigate the effect of health insurance on labor market transitions in and out of self-employment as well as on … the likelihood of being self-employed. We consider the role of individual health insurance coverage along with that from a …-tax health insurance premium on the entry rate, with no effect on exits from self-employment or the likelihood of being self …

employer provided health insurance and pension than whites in the last decade. We also find that the inclusion of racial …This paper examines differences in two important components of non-wage compensation, employer provided health … insurance and pensions, across African Americans and the whites in the United States. Using data from the Current Population …