This paper is motivated to investigate the often neglected payoff to investments in the health of girls and women in … terms of next generation outcomes. This paper investigates the intergenerational persistence of health across time and … region as well as across the distribution of maternal health. It uses comparable micro-data on as many as 2.24 million …

explore the extent to which the health effects of job displacement extend to the children of displaced workers and also the … husbandsﾒ job losses have significant negative effects on infant health. They reduce birth weights by approximately four and a …

Though the positive income gradient of child health is well documented in developed countries, evidence from developing … countries is rare. Few studies attempt to identify a causal link between family income and child health. Utilizing unique … longitudinal data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey, we have found a positive, age-enhancing income gradient of child …

China, particularly so for the aged. In general education tends to be positively correlated with better health outcomes, as …We are concerned in this paper with measuring health outcomes among the elderly in Zhejiang and Gansu provinces, China …, and examining the relationships between different dimensions of health status and measures of socio-economic status (SES …

In this paper, we estimate socioeconomic heterogeneity in the effect of unexpected health shocks on labor market … heterogeneity in the effects, in which individuals with a low education level suffer relatively more from a given health shock …. These results hold across a wide range of different types of health shocks and become more pronounced with age. Our results …

The issue of whether employees who work more hours than they want to suffer adverse health consequences is important … question by analyzing the impact of the discrepancy between actual and desired work hours on self-perceived health outcomes in …-hour mismatches (i.e., differences between actual and desired hours) have negative effects on workers' health. In particular, we show …

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 …

child health can provide an important explanation for disparities in children's human capital development across different …-cognitive skills. We analyze data from economic experiments with preschoolers and their mothers to investigate whether child health can … willingness to compete with others. Our findings suggest that health problems are negatively related to children's willingness to …

We explore two unexpected changes in flight regulations to identify the causal effect of aircraft noise on health …. Detailed yearly noise metrics are linked with panel data on health outcomes using exact address information. Controlling for … headaches. Our pooled models substantially underestimate the detrimental health effects, which suggests that individuals self …

This paper examines the effect of income inequality on health for a group of particularly disadvantaged individuals … different types of diagnoses. Our estimates are precise enough to rule out large effects of income inequality on health …