This short essay reviews Gary Becker's contributions and influence in health economics. It was originally prepared for …

This paper presents a life cycle model for the demand for health, and derives empirical specifications that distinguish … between permanent and transitory wage responses. Using panel data, we estimate dynamic health and health input demand … in the literature. The analysis emphasises the importance to analyse health related behaviour in a dynamic life cycle …

investments in their education and in which we allow for health-related gender differences in productivity. We show that better …We analyze the economic consequences for less developed countries of investing in female health. In so doing we … female health speeds up the demographic transition and thereby the take-off toward sustained economic growth. By contrast …

Influenza vaccination could be a cost-effective way to reduce costs in terms of human lives and productivity losses … manipulating incentives to participate in this health intervention allows us to study peer effects with organizational data and to … sickness absence during the flu season. Getting vaccinated was ineffective with no measurable health externalities from …

; productivity ; financial constraint ; export ; technology frontier ; BEEPS …

evidence of detrimental effects on psychiatric or other forms of health. From the date of asylum, those who have waited longer …