ignored. We fill this void by providing the first estimates of the Intergenerational Health Association (IHA) that are … strong ties across generations. However, health status, arguably a more critical component of welfare, has largely been …-sectional units. Adjusting for only age and gender, we estimate an IHA of 0.3 indicating that about one third of a parent's health …

Studies of intergenerational mobility have largely ignored health despite the central importance of health to welfare …. We present the first estimates of intergenerational health mobility in the US by using repeated measures of self …-reported health status (SRH) during adulthood from the PSID. Our main finding is that there is substantially greater health mobility …

We use data from the The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health and from the Health and Retirement … significantly as teenagers transition into adulthood (using the Add Health cohort, born 1974-83). However, this is not the case for …

One of the most robust findings in health economics is that higher-educated individuals tend to be in better health …. This paper tests whether health disparities across education are to some extent due to differences in reporting error … across education. We test this hypothesis using data from the pooled National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES …

account when predicting transmission or designing effective public health measures and messages to prevent or contain …

This paper examines the impact of universal, free, and easily accessible primary healthcare on population health as … provided at family health centers, which operate on a walk-in basis and are located within the neighborhoods in close proximity … health …

Utilizing a nationally representative panel data of middle-aged and elder individuals from China, we assess the health … that the negative impact of air pollution on female health is significant, particularly for females in the middle of the … health distribution. Notably, the implementation of environmental policies leads to health improvements in females and plays …

Is the education-health gradient inflated because both education and health are associated with unobserved socio …-fixed effects to address that much of the observed education-health gradient reflects associations rather than causal relationships …. There are education-health gradients even within sibling pairs; personality facets reduce these gradients by 30% or more …

have poorer health once they reach the adulthood. We used data from the German Socio-Economic Panel from 2002 until 2018 … interpretation of the estimates. On the one hand, we found a nil effect for parental unemployment on mental health. On the other hand …, we detected a negative effect on physical health. The latter is stronger if parental unemployment occurred in early …

While there is mounting evidence that large income shocks, e.g. in the form of a job loss, may impact health and … income constant, and health. This paper exploits rich survey data on the near-elderly in Canada paired with their … administrative tax records to investigate whether a relationship exists between health and well-being on the one hand, and individual …