) health improvement using administrative data on all Dutch disability benefit applicants. We compare those below the DI … eligibility threshold with those above and find that disincentives significantly reduce work resumption after health improves …. Approximately half of the response to recovery is offset by benefits. Structural labor supply model estimates suggest disincentive …

Rapid urbanization could have positive and negative health effects, such that the net impact on population health is … and individual level longitudinal data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey to estimate the net health impact of … to identify the treatment effect of urbanization on the self-assessed health of individuals. The results reveal important …

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 …

' abilities while the government does not and monopsony power determines what share of the labor market surplus is translated into … profits. Monopsony power increases the tax incidence that falls on firms. This makes labor income taxes less (more) effective … in redistributing labor income (profits). The optimal tax schedule is less progressive. Monopsony power alleviates the …

Netherlands. Using unique administrative data on health and labor market outcomes of all employees in the Netherlands, we …Workers with fixed-term contracts typically have worse health than workers with permanent contracts. We show that these … differences in health translate into a substantially higher (30%) risk of applying for disability insurance (DI) in the …

We examine the effect of publicly provided health care on welfare by combining local level data on public health care …, and individual level data on life satisfaction. It is shown that relatively high expenditures in health care have a … health care, where middle-income individuals prefer higher public expenditure at the margin than low-income or high …

This study analyses the relation between perceived health status and intertemporal choice. We use data from experiments …