health-related selection of individuals into self-employment (barrier effect). Our main finding is that the selection of …The self-employed are often reported to be healthier than wage workers; however, the cause of this health difference is … largely unknown. The longitudinal nature of the US Health and Retirement Study allows us to gauge the plausibility of two …

paper we exploit detailed friendship nominations in the US Add Health data, and extend the Spatial Autoregressive Model (SAR …) model to deal with (i) endogenous peer selection, and (ii) unobserved contextual effects, in order to identify the … affects later life health and socioeconomic outcomes. …

discriminate between the theoretical parameters. Differences in health knowledge appear to be responsible for the greatest part of … the education disparity in diet. However, when faced with the most explicit health information regarding diet, lower … educated individuals still state choices that imply a lower concern for negative health consequences. This is consistent with a …

Understanding of the substantial disparity in health between low and high socioeconomic status (SES) groups is hampered … disparities in health by SES. In our model, lifestyle factors, working conditions, retirement, living conditions and curative care … are mechanisms through which SES, health and mortality are related. Our model predicts a widening and possibly a …

-related inequality of self-assessed health evolve over the life cycle and differ across generations in 11 EU countries. There is a … moderate and steady decline in mean health until the age of 70 or so and a steep acceleration in the rate of health … economic and social development, the average health of younger generations is significantly better than that of older …

While there is no doubt that health is strongly correlated with education, whether schooling exerts a causal impact on … health is not yet firmly established. We exploit Dutch compulsory schooling laws in a Regression Discontinuity Design applied … to linked data from health surveys, tax files and the mortality register to estimate the causal effect of education on …

A strong relationship between health and socioeconomic status is firmly established. Yet, partly due to the … allows investigation of whether the socioeconomically disadvantaged, on top of a lower health level, experience a sharper … deterioration of their health over the life cycle. We show that in the Netherlands, as in the US, the socioeconomic gradient in …

Ill-health can be expected to reduce employment and income. But are the effects sustained over time? Do they differ …, on employment and income up to six years after the health shock using linked Dutch hospital and tax register data. On … personal income (30% for those entering disability insurance) two years after the shock. There is no subsequent recovery in …