This paper investigates the returns to health care provision during the mortality transition. We construct a new panel … data set covering German municipalities from 1928 to 1936. The endogeneity of health care supply is addressed by using the … expulsion of Jewish physicians from statutory health insurance as exogenous variation in regional physician supply. Increases in …

eventually controlled through public health efforts at the municipal level. Using data from 26 major American cities for the … suggest that public health interventions undertaken at the municipal level contributed to the dissipation of summer diarrhea …

We evaluate the short- and medium-term health impacts of Sure Start, a large-scale and universal early childhood …' can deliver significant health benefits, even in contexts with universal healthcare. Impacts are driven by … environments might be a successful strategy to reduce inequalities in health. …

This study analyzes the causal effect of an increase in the retirement age on health. We exploit a sizable cohort …-in-Differences approach. The analysis is based on official records covering all individuals insured by the public health system in Germany and …-dimensionality in these health effects. The empirical findings reflect the multi-dimensionality but allow for deriving two broader …

This paper characterizes the link between ambient temperatures and a broad set of mental health outcomes. We find that … health. Specifically, cold temperatures reduce negative mental health outcomes while hot temperatures increase them. Our … conditioning penetration rates, accessibility of mental health services, and other factors. The character of the results suggests …

A rich literature has studied the effect of job insecurity on health. However the causal link between these two … variables remains unclear. We study the relationship between perceived job insecurity and health using longitudinal data on … of the dataset compared to previous studies on job insecurity and health allows us to apply different estimation methods …

mind to alter these attitudes and biases, and health-related behaviours in particular, using a randomized controlled … impact of our interventions on risk-taking and inter-temporal decisions, as well as on a range of measures of health … behavioural traits and health-related behaviours. Our findings have significant implications for a new domain of research on …

We identify the ages that constitute critical periods in children's development towards their adult health status. For …. Long-run health is proxied by adult height. The relation between siblings' ages at migration and their heights after age 18 … mother is well-educated. -- Early-life conditions ; migration ; parental education ; adult health ; height retardation ; age …

Using a matched insurant-general practitioner panel data set, we estimated the effect of a general health …-screening program on individuals' health status and health care cost. To account for selection into treatment, we used regional … screening participation substantially increased inpatient and outpatient health care costs for up to two years after treatment …