, and depends on three factors: longevity genes, health investment and farsightedness. Provided earnings, farsightedness and …

We estimate and decompose family income-related inequality in child health in the US and analyze its dynamics using the … income-related health mobility index recently introduced by Allanson et al., 2010. Data come from the 1997, 2002, and 2007 … waves of the Child Development Supplement (CDS) of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). The findings show that family …

The health status of people is a precious commodity and central to economic, socio-political, and environmental … the portrait of immigrants and natives. In this paper we are concerned with international migration and health outcomes in … insights into the Healthy Immigrant Paradox and the health assimilation of immigrants as we also elucidate selection and …

The impact of global climate change on health is not well understood. Besides the direct channel of increasing … risk of health problems later, implying even larger long run societal costs. Results confirm that exposure to extreme …

earnings. This paper examines the role of health at birth in determining academic achievement in childhood, which may provide …-stage least squares (NEC2SLS) estimator that draws on internal instruments from alternative dimensions of the multi-level panel … effects concentrated in the low birthweight range. Infant health measures appear to explain little of the well …

earnings. This paper examines the role of health at birth in determining academic achievement in childhood, which may provide …-stage least squares (NEC2SLS) estimator that draws on internal instruments from alternative dimensions of the multi-level panel … effects concentrated in the low birthweight range. Infant health measures appear to explain little of the well …

the Fraser Institute. The results from both cross-sectional and panel regressions using ordinary least squares indicate a …