The process of development is linked to the rise of an integrated and competitive economy and polity that allow a maximal division of labor and innovation. This process relies on two intertwined dynamics. First, in the establishment of the rule of law, legal instruments are appropriated by those...

This paper reviews the literature on the impact of work on health. We consider work along two dimensions: (i) the intensive margin, i.e. how many hours an individual works and (ii) the extensive margin, i.e. whether an individual is in employment or not, independent of the number of hours...

The objective of the paper is to analyze the respective impact of aid and remittances on human development as measured by infant and child mortality rates and stunting incidence. Panel data on a sample of 98 developing countries, and cross-country quintile-level data on a sample of 47 developing...

We study the psychosocial determinants of self-assessed health in order to explain social inequalities in health in France. We use a unique general population survey to assess the respective impact on self-assessed health status of subjective perceptions of social capital, social support, and...

This study aims to analyse the impact of the measurement of health status on socioeconomic inequalities in health. A MIMIC model with structural equations is used to create a latent variable of health status from four health indicators : self-assessed health, report of chronic diseases, report...

In this paper, we use IV-techniques to identify the causal e ect of retirement among the 50-69 year-old on Body Mass Index (BMI) and related weight measures. Based on the 2004 and 2006 waves of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), the identi cation strategy exploits the...

Contrary to the traditional view of the health care consumer as an economic agent whose sove-reignty is attenuated, we argue that he is far less ignorant and far less deprived of reason than it is supposed by the tutelary model of health economics. The reason lies in his enhanced level of...