health. We estimate the causal effect of the 1986 Chernobyl catastrophe after 20 years by linking geographic variation in …

How do sudden, large wealth losses affect mental health? Most prior studies of the causal effects of material well …-being on health use identification strategies involving income increases; these studies as well as prior research on stock … market accumulations may not inform this question if the effect of wealth on health is asymmetric. We use exogenous variation …

explanation for several seemingly unrelated facts about employment growth in macro and micro data. In particular, they generate … of employment growth to TFP shocks estimated from Census data induce significant skewness, movements in volatility and …

, measured in childhood, differentially predict the likelihood of employment for adult Norwegian men and women. Drawing on …

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 …

costs, and diminishing health such as increasing in obesity (and associated physical health problems) as well behavioral … changing health, we find that increasing mental/emotional/physical health problems accounts for a significant portion of … that deteriorating mental/ emotional/physical health resulting from dietary changes and other factors has increased local …

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 …

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

approach enables us to investigate the interaction between health and retirement policy in order to quantitatively characterize … implications for health inequality. Calibrating our model to Germany, we find that currently the public health and pension system … is approximately optimal. Future progress in medical technology calls for a potentially drastic increase in health …