the education/health gradient. I am also able to rule out occupational hazards and health insurance coverage as …This paper estimates the health returns to education, using data on identical twins. I adopt a twin … both education and health. I further investigate to what extent within-twin-pair differences in schooling correlates with …

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 …

System (PPS) for hospitals based on Diagnosis Related Groups (DRG) to assess their impact on health and on the use of health … care services. We consider survey data for the years 1993-2007 with information on both individualsÄ perceived health and … their utilization of health care services. Results suggest that the introduction of market incentives via a fixed …

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 …

causal effect of undernourishment on later-life health. We develop a Two-Sample Instrumental Variable (TSIV) estimator that …'s effect on later life health found in previous studies. We also find that exposure to famine-induced hunger early in life … leads to worse health among females fifty years later. This effect is much larger than the reduced-form effect found in …

insights into the Healthy Immigrant Paradox and the health assimilation of immigrants as we also elucidate selection and …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 …

In this paper we hypothesize that education is associated with a higher efficiency of health investment, yet that this … efficiency advantage is solely driven by intelligence. We operationalize efficiency of health investment as the probability of … the higher educated to be more efficient users of health investment - intelligent individuals have a clear survival …

the education/health gradient. I am also able to rule out occupational hazards and health insurance coverage as …This paper estimates the health returns to education, using data on identical twins. I adopt a twin … both education and health. I further investigate to what extent within-twin-pair differences in schooling correlates with …