Index (BMI) and improved health. Our research examines the relationship between an individual's health and their environment …

Based on the German Socio-Economic Panel, the influence of the body mass index on health, earnings and satisfaction is … analysed by gender. Basic results are: health worsens, income declines and satisfaction is poorer with higher body mass index … determined, the health estimates show nonlinear effects but the direction of action is unchanged. Effects on earnings differ …

Using five waves from the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), we investigate the association between maternal …

the lifecycle, education, social benefits take-up, and adult mortality. For this purpose, we have linked a unique dataset … insurance and that birth weight matters for adult mortality. We supplement our main analysis with more recent data, which …

. However, little is known about the influence of these policies on children's health and well-being. In this paper, we study …

The standard economic model for the demand for health care predicts that unhealthy behaviour such as being overweight … primary physician (GP) services according to the individual's latent health status. Based on a sample of wage-earners aged 25 …-60 years drawn from the National Health Interview (NHI) survey 2000 and merged to Danish register data, we compare differences …

We provide the first study estimating the causal effect of air pollution on body weight. Using the China Health and … Nutrition Survey, which provides detailed longitudinal health and socioeconomic information for 13,226 adult individuals over …