This paper investigates the returns to health care provision during the mortality transition. We construct a new panel … data set covering German municipalities from 1928 to 1936. The endogeneity of health care supply is addressed by using the … expulsion of Jewish physicians from statutory health insurance as exogenous variation in regional physician supply. Increases in …

mind to alter these attitudes and biases, and health-related behaviours in particular, using a randomized controlled … impact of our interventions on risk-taking and inter-temporal decisions, as well as on a range of measures of health … behavioural traits and health-related behaviours. Our findings have significant implications for a new domain of research on …

We identify the ages that constitute critical periods in children's development towards their adult health status. For …. Long-run health is proxied by adult height. The relation between siblings' ages at migration and their heights after age 18 …

,806 participants aged ≥60 years from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study were included. We measured 13 risk factors in … status, domestic violence, neighborhood, and health). We used multinomial regression models to examine the association …. Results show that worse health condition in childhood and unfavorable childhood and adolescent socioeconomic status as …

This paper shows that health is an important determinant of labor market vulnerability during large economic crises …. Using data on adults during Sweden's unexpected economic crisis in the early 1990s, we show that early and later life health … are important determinants of job loss after the crisis, but not before. Adults who were born with worse health (proxied …

Economists rely heavily on self-reported measures of health status to examine the relationship between income and … health. In this paper we directly compare survey responses to a self-reported measure of health that is commonly available in … nationally-representative individual and household surveys, with objective measures of the same health condition. Our particular …

impact on infant health at birth. We find evidence of reduced birth weight, shortened gestational length and even preterm … the causal chain underlying our finding on the adverse health impact of skyglow. Our study has important policy …