We examine the relationship between wealth and health through prominent growth indicators and cognitive ability …

We study the association between the ritual of menstrual restrictions and maternal health- care access as well as women … persistent negative implications on women's physical and mental health that is not just limited to the time of menstruation. …

This paper is a meta-analysis on the relationship between unemployment and health. Our meta-dataset is made up of 327 … estimators. The average effect of unemployment on health is negative, but small in terms of partial correlation coefficient. We … psychological domains of health and that short- and long-term unemployment spells equally affect health. Dealing with endogeneity …

emigration, and provinces with higher public spending on health. Finally, we estimate economic cost of cold and heat waves using …

several early-life health indicators. Robust evidence shows that such nutrition supplements effectively increase boys' weight … and reduce their probability of being underweight. No effect is observed on girls of similar age. These health indicators …

We explore how involuntary and voluntary exits from self-employment affect life and health satisfaction. To that end …-employment exit) brings small improvements in health and life satisfaction, the negative psychological costs of business failure (i … physical health and behaviors such as smoking and drinking, implying that the costs of losing self-employment are largely …

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 …

introduction of pension benefits on the health status, health behaviors, and healthcare utilization of rural Chinese adults age 60 … and above. The results point to three main conclusions. First, in addition to improvements in self-reported health, older … adults with access to the pension program experienced significant improvements in several important measures of health …

improvement selfreported measures of native workers' health. These findings, together with the evidence that immigrants report … lower injury rates than natives, suggest that the reallocation of tasks could reduce overall health care costs and the human …

This paper analyzes the relationship between education and health outcomes using a natural experiment in Turkey. The … attainment to investigate the impact of education on body mass index, obesity, smoking behavior, and self-rated health, as well … statistically significant favorable effect of education on health outcomes and behavior. However, this relationship becomes …