This paper investigates the impact of parental education on child health outcomes. To identify the causal effect we … leaving age by one year had little effect on the health of their offspring. Schooling did however improve economic … child health are at most modest. …

We study the retirement effects on mental health using a fuzzy regression discontinuity design based on the eligibility … status. Retirement of partnered men positively affects mental health of both themselves and their partners. Single men … retiring experience a drop in mental health. Female retirement has hardly any effect on their own mental health or the mental …

death, covering a window of unprecedented size (1912-2000) are merged with historical data on macroeconomic and health …

Europe aims at combining income growth with improvements in social cohesion as measured by income and health … growth and the income responsiveness of health. We investigate whether these conditions held in Europe in the nineties using … decompositions to demonstrate that (i) in all countries except Austria, the income elasticity of health is positive and increases …

spouse, disability, and a move toa nursing home, may affect the mental health status of the individual. Forexample, the … behavior,health status, and major life events, over time. To deal with endogenousaspects of these events we apply fixed effects … estimation methods. We findsome strikingly large effects of certain events on the occurrence of depression. We show that the …

This paper proposes a method to evaluate health losses or gains by looking at the impact on well-being of a change in … health status. The paper presents estimates of the equivalent income change that would be necessary to change general … satisfaction with life to the same extent as a change in health satisfaction would do. In other words, the income equivalent of …

health insurance. A premium subsidy had a persistent effect on enrollment that is more than four fifths of the immediate …