fuel poverty and a set of well-being outcomes: life-satisfaction, self-reported health measures and more objectively … associations with life satisfaction and fibrinogen, one of our biological health measures. The presence of these strong … deprivation indicators as well as in the case of self-reported generic measures of physical health. Lifestyle and chronic health …

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

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 …

This paper examines the extent to which childhood circumstances contribute to health inequality in old age and how the … contributions may vary across key dimensions of health. We link the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) in 2013 … and 2015 with its Life History Survey in 2014 to quantify health inequality due to childhood circumstances for which they …

. 6,806 participants aged ≥60 years from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study were included. We measured 13 … status, nutritional status, domestic violence, neighborhood, and health). We used multinomial regression models to examine … significant factors. Results show that worse health condition in childhood and unfavorable childhood and adolescent socioeconomic …

Extreme weather induced by climate change can have major consequences for human health. In this study, I quantify the …

The growth of novel flexible work formats raises a number of questions about their effects upon health and the …-employment in terms of health. In addition to variation in work status of each individual over time, we also consider variation … driven by a number of novel instrumental variables. We also focus on an objective health outcome -hospital admissions- that …

Drawing upon theoretical insights from the Job Demand-Control model, which links occupational characteristics to health …, this paper provides the first causal evidence of the physical and mental health consequences of self … self-employment (opportunity entrepreneurship) lead to health enhancements for entrepreneurs with and without employees …