Parental migration is often found to be negatively correlated with child health in Africa, yet the causal mechanisms are poorly understood. The paper uses a dataset that provides information from the respondent parent on child morbidity both in the rural and urban settings...

This microeconometric study analyzes the effects of individual leisure sports participation on long-term labour market variables, on socio-demographic as well as on health and subjective well-being indicators for West Germany based on individual data from the German Socio-Economic Panel study...

The question of whether two drugs - namely alcohol and tobacco - are used as complements or substitutes is of crucial interest if side-effects of anti-smoking policies are considered. Numerous papers have empirically addressed this issue by estimating demand systems for alcohol and tobacco and...

We investigate the impact of exogenous income fluctuations on health using twenty years ofdata from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics using techniques from the literature on theestimation of dynamic panel data models....

Using unique representative data containing self-reported functional and clinically measuredhearing ability for the Danish population aged 50-64, we estimate the effect of hearing losson receipt of disability benefits accounting for potential endogeneity of functional hearing...

This paper investigates the impact of macroeconomic shocks on infant mortality in India andinvestigates likely mechanisms. A recent OECD-dominated literature shows that mortality atmost ages is pro-cyclical but similar analyses for poorer countries are scarce, and bothincome risk and mortality...

We study the importance of childhood socioeconomic conditions in explaining differences inlife expectancy using data from a sample of around 5,000 children collected in the UK in1937-39, who have been traced through official death records up to 2005. We estimate anumber of duration of life...

In this paper we use Portuguese data on individual (multiple) unemployment spells and applysemi-parametric duration models to investigate the effects of different types of disabilities on(re)employment probabilities. We find that disabled persons with muscular, skeletal, geriatricand sensorial...

This paper begins the synthesis of two currently unrelated literatures: the human capitalapproach to health economics and the economics of cognitive and noncognitive skillformation. ...

This paper examines the impact of self-reported work limitation on the labour forceparticipation of the Australian working age population. Five consecutive waves of theHousehold, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey are used toinvestigate this relationship...