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

Based on the Canadian National Population Health Survey we estimate the effects of individual sports and exercise on … individual labor market outcomes. The data covers the period from 1994 to 2008. It is longitudinal and rich in life-style, health …

Nationwide health interventions are difficult to evaluate as contemporaneous control groups do not exist and before … intervention has no direct effect on the health outcome but influences the outcome only through its effect on individual behavior … behavior, for which a conditional before-after assumption is more plausible; and (ii) the effect of the behaviour on the health …

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 … income-related child health inequality remains stable from early childhood into adolescence. The main factor underlying …

's counterfactual work behavior. We show that extending parental leave has significant positive effects on children's health and human …

This paper investigates the relationship between health insurance coverage and risky health behaviors among young … Affordable Care Act required all employers to provide health insurance to employees’ children until the age of 26 (before … September, 2010), many health insurance contracts covered dependents through age 19. Using a regression discontinuity design …