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 …

1992-2010 Health and Retirement Study (HRS). We estimate a discrete time hazard model to test whether diabetes affects the … not for females. This effect persists when we include controls for onset of other health conditions, two of which are …

example, report contradictory effects of education and compulsory schooling on mortality - ranging from zero to large …Education yields substantial non-monetary benefits, but the size of these gains is still debated. Previous studies, for … mortality reductions. Using data from 19 compulsory schooling reforms implemented in Europe during the twentieth century, we …

candidate is expectations: what people expect could affect how they feel about what actually occurs. In a real-effort experiment …, we manipulate the rational expectations of subjects and check whether this manipulation influences their effort provision …-based reference-dependent preferences: if expectations are high, subjects work longer and earn more money than if expectations are low. …

Using a representative online panel from the US, we examine how individuals' macroeconomic expectations causally affect … their personal economic prospects and their behavior. To exogenously vary respondents' expectations we provide them with … response to the forecasts, extrapolate to expectations about their personal economic circumstances and adjust their consumption …

self-selected information avoidance. All our findings can be captured by a model of optimally distorted expectations …