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 …

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 …

of income and health using procedures that are robust to aggregation techniques. The paper's approach is more general …This paper uses sequential stochastic dominance procedures to compare the joint distribution of health and income … than comparisons of health gradients and does not require the estimation of health equivalent incomes. We illustrate the …

health effects of transitions from welfare to employment and of assignments to welfare-to-work programmes. Applying semi …-parametric propensity score matching estimators we find that employment substantially increases (mental) health. The positive effects are … mainly driven by males and individuals with bad initial health conditions and are largest for males with poor health. In …

We examine the health impacts of early access to public pension wealth by exploiting a unique policy in Singapore … anticipated and lagged health impacts, we adopt the donut regression discontinuity approach. Using nationally representative … monthly panel data, we find that early access to pension wealth improves self-reported overall health …

We study the effect of the cycle on the health of newborn babies using 30 years of birth-certificate data for Spain. We …, the effect on health is not the result of selection, since the main result survives the inclusion of parents' fixed …-effects. Analysis of National Health Survey data shows that fertility-age women engage in healthier behaviors during recessions (in …

This paper studies the effects of the 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) initiative on health insurance … coverage, access to care, health care use, and health outcomes. We exploit a difference-in-differences that relies on the … significant increases in health care use, although there is some evidence that DACA increased demand for mental health services …

We investigate long-run effects of episodes of hunger experienced as a child on health status and behavioral outcomes … suggest that individual behavior is a pathway between early life shocks and adult health: We find that those who experienced …-documented biological channel from early life circumstances to adult health, there is also a behavioral pathway …

general health problems in youth is an important health predictor for later life home care use. A large portion of this effect …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 …

health status. The paper presents estimates of the equivalent income change that would be necessary to change general …This paper proposes a method to evaluate health losses or gains by looking at the impact on well-being of a change in … satisfaction with life to the same extent as a change in health satisfaction would do. In other words, we estimate the income …