Transport has significant externalities including carbon emissions and air pollution. Public health research has … identified additional social gains from active travel, due to health benefits of physical exercise. Per mile, these benefits …

While several studies suggest that stress-related mental health problems among school children are related to specific … increased weekly instruction time and study its effects on stress-related outpatient diagnoses from the universe of health … claims data of the German Social Health Insurance. Exploiting the differential timing in the reform implementation across …

impatience are found to be significant predictors of health-related field behavior, saving decisions and conduct at school. In …

We investigate the effects of incentivizing early prenatal care utilization on infant health by exploiting a reform … health. We further provide suggestive evidence that improved maternal health-related knowledge and behaviors during pregnancy … are plausible channels through which the reform might have affected fetal health …

lockdowns with a focus on the role of health care based upon both the between and the within-variation of our panel-data. The … the state of the health care system before the crisis. Lockdowns were more efficient in countries with well …-supported health care systems. Marginal effects turn insignificant when per capita health expenditure dips below the mean. We can show …

This article analyzes the effect of public policy intervention in the production of health capital on fertility …, private investment in children's health and education and human capital accumulation. I have used a growth model with … an additional factor that affects children's human capital, which is health. I analyze the overall society-wide effect of …

We explore the effects of a child labor regulation that changed the legal working age from 14 to 16 over the health of … their offspring. We show that the reform was detrimental for the health of the son’s of affected parents at delivery. Yet … mothers are perceived as still having worse health at older ages, even if their objective health status has recovered. These …

The Healthy Immigrant Paradox found in the literature by comparing the health of immigrants to that of natives in the …-origin framework, in which we compare the health of emigrants to that of their compatriots who stay in the country of origin. Isolating … cultural effects can best gauge self-selection and host country effects on the health of emigrants with longer time abroad. We …