We examine the health and height of men born in England and Wales in the 1890s who enlisted in the army at the time of … suggest that changing conditions at both household and locality levels contributed to the increase in height and health in the …

Background: Nutrition in utero and infancy may causally affect health and mortality at old ages. Until now, very few … individual characteristics and additional (early life) determinants of mortality. Results: Men exposed to severe famine during …. Conclusion: To our knowledge, this is the first evidence suggesting long-run effects of early nutritional stresses on mortality …

potential mechanisms, including health behaviors, lifestyles, earnings, work conditions, and health at the start of the risk … for women. We discuss the implications for policies aimed at improving health and longevity and reducing health inequality …

We compare estimates of the effects of education on health and health behaviour using two different instrumental … find that estimates using each approach are remarkably congruent for a wide range of health outcomes. Effect sizes of …

-compulsory education level increased after the reform.In addition, we find that the reform decreases mortality while young (16-25) for both … genders while it increases mortality for middle age women (26-40). We provide evidence to proof that the latter increase is … partly explained by the deterioration of the health habits of affected women. Together, these results help explain the …

bad health both in term of the Index of ADL and mortality. Effects of gender on the Index of ADL and on mortality are … Longevity Survey, we study health in oldest old population. We measure health using the Katz Index of Activities of Daily Living … (ADL) and in term of mortality. Our results suggest that besides aging, there are other important factors contributing to …

interact in explaining a range of health outcomes. Using rich Australian survey data, we find that, while the two traits are … of control and health is reduced once we control for self-control, suggesting that self-control mediates at least part of … physical health …

We study the effect of a compulsory education reform in Sweden on adult health and mortality. The reform was …, hospitalizations, labor force participation and mortality for Swedes born between 1946 and 1957. Individual level data allow us to … study the effect of the education reform on three main groups of outcomes: (i) mortality until age 60 for different causes …

) mortality later in life. In addition, we examine to what extent these long-run effects run by way of cognitive ability and … (across the full range) and CV mortality rate later in life is significantly stronger if the individual is born in a recession …

psychological buffer against health shocks in adulthood. To identify behavioural differences in labour supply, I focus on a selected … group of full-time employed men of working age and similar health. Men with negative control beliefs, relative to men with … positive beliefs, are 230-290% more likely to work part-time or drop out of the labour market after a health shock. In old age …