. This paper tests whether health disparities across education are to some extent due to differences in reporting error … health disparities across education that average 19.3%. …One of the most robust findings in health economics is that higher-educated individuals tend to be in better health …

A rich economic literature has examined the human capital impacts of disease-eliminating health interventions, such as … educational, economic, or health outcomes. The reduced-form approach, on the other hand, shows that these long-term outcomes …

Influenza and air pollution each pose significant public health risks with large global economic consequences. The … common pathways through which each harms health presents an interesting case of compounding risk via interacting … significantly increase influenza hospitalizations. We exploit random variations in the effectiveness of the influenza vaccine as an …

We describe how ethnic disparities in the labor market between prime aged Hispanic and non-Hispanic white men have …

. Despite the large regional disparities in China, there is a lack of evidence on the differential patterns of medical services …

expressing health care-seeking behavior as a function of economic and behavioral fundamentals and highlighting the role of trust …. We report several findings. First, we document a strong association between higher levels of trust in the health care … scenarios, from routine check-ups to vaccinations. Second, the impact of trust on health care utilization is similar in …

This paper analyzes the relation between commuting time and health in the United Kingdom. I focus on four different … types of health outcomes: subjective health measures, objective health measures, health behavior, and health care … utilization. Fixed effect models are estimated with British Household Panel Survey data. I find that whereas objective health and …

We report evidence of long-term adverse health impacts of in utero exposure to malnutrition based on survivors in their … data provided by the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) to corroborate evidence supporting the Fetal … Origin Hypothesis. We find that fetal exposure to malnutrition has large and long-lasting impacts on both physical health and …

In this paper we look at the relationship between health and income as mediated by "lifestyle" choices; that is, a set … of behaviours which are thought to influence health and are generally considered to invoke a substantial degree of free … choice. The main underlying assumption is that individuals are co-producers of their own health. We first present a …