of education on health behaviors. Using the number of academic track schools in a state as an instrumental variable for … years of schooling, we investigate the causal effect of schooling on health behavior such as smoking and related outcomes …

In this paper we estimate the effect of early life health on home care use later in life, and we analyse whether this … early life health and later life home care use. We also account for selective attrition. Our empirical findings show that … general health problems in youth is an important health predictor for later life home care use. A large portion of this effect …

This paper provides the first full examination of the effect of German works councils on wages using matched employer …

Using cross-country data, we investigate the determinants of reservation wages and their course over the jobless spell …. Higher unemployment benefits lead to higher reservation wages. Further, again consistent with the basic search model …, repeated observations on the same individual provide scant evidence of declining reservation wages …