This paper provides evidence about the quality of retrospective childhood health histories given to respondents in the … HRS and the PSID. Even though information on early life health events is critical, there is legitimate skepticism about … the ability of older respondents to remember specific health problems that they had as a child. The evidence presented in …

Maternity leave policies are presumed to be essential to ensure the health of pregnant workers and their unborn … children's health at birth, subsequent maternal health and fertility, and longterm human capital outcomes of children. Our …

Superstition is a widespread phenomenon. We empirically examine its impact on health-related behavior and health … bad outcomes, we observe substantial adaptions in health-related behavior. Our identification exploits idiosyncratic … is a quantum effect, the latter two effects reflect changes in the timing of events. Efficient public health policy …

's counter-factual work behavior. We show that extending parental leave has significant positive effects on children's health and …

Social insurance programs typically comprise sick leave insurance. An important policy parameter is how the cost of … only absence behavior, but also workers' subsequent health. To inform our empirical analysis we propose a simple model …, where workers' absence decision is taken conditional on the sharing rule, health, and a dismissal probability.Our empirical …

The Irish-born population in England is in worse health than both the native population and the Irish population in … Ireland, however, are healthier than the English population. The substantial Irish health penalty arises principally for … cohorts born between 1920 and 1960. This paper attempts to understand the processes that generated this migrant health pattern …

This paper interprets accidents occurring on the way to and from work as negative health shocks to identify the causal … effect of health on labor market outcomes. We argue that in our sample of exactly matched treated and control workers, these … health shocks are quasi-randomly assigned. A fixed-effects difference-in-differences approach estimates a negative and …

Using a matched insurant-general practitioner panel data set, we estimated the effect of a general health …-screening program on individuals' health status and health care cost. To account for selection into treatment, we used regional … screening participation substantially increased inpatient and outpatient health care costs for up to two years after treatment …

health outcomes, and their link to socioeconomic factors, at older ages. Since the data are at a comparatively young stage … the most common. What is immediately apparent as we get better measures is that health differences between countries … measures utilize doctor diagnosed conditions or biomarker-based indicators of disease and poor health. But one key finding …