To our knowledge, no study has examined the effect of immigration on the health of older natives. We use the Study of … Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) to investigate whether immigration affects depression among natives 65 …-80 years old. Immigration may increase the supply and lower the price of personal and household services, a term that refers to …

capital, health, is also largely transmitted from generation to generation, contributing to limited socio-economic mobility …. Using data from the NLSY, we first present new evidence on intergenerational transmission of health outcomes in the U … native and immigrant children inherit a prominent fraction of their health status from their parents, and that, on average …

This paper provides new empirical evidence on the contribution of selective migration to the health advantage of … from the Vital Statistics, it compares the health distribution (in terms of birth outcomes) of immigrant children born in … destination. These comparisons suggest that positive selection is partly responsible for the health advantage of recent immigrants …

In this paper, we estimate socioeconomic heterogeneity in the effect of unexpected health shocks on labor market … heterogeneity in the effects, in which individuals with a low education level suffer relatively more from a given health shock …. These results hold across a wide range of different types of health shocks and become more pronounced with age. Our results …

Childhood obesity has adverse health and productivity consequences and poses negative externalities to health services … hypothetical investment scenarios. We show that perceived returns are predictive of health investments and outcomes, and that less … educated parents perceive the returns to health investments to be lower, thus contributing to the socioeconomic inequality in …

We estimate the impact of the Great Recession of 2007–2009 on health outcomes in the United States. We show that a one … percentage point increase in the unemployment rate resulted in a 7.8–8.8 percent increase in reports of poor health. Mental … health was also adversely impacted and reports of chronic drinking increased. These effects were concentrated among those …

on the health of young adults. We find that an additional $100 in the average annual EITC exposure between ages 0 and 18 … increases the likelihood of reporting very good or excellent health by 2.7 percentage points and decreases the likelihood of …, and increases in health insurance coverage are channels through which the EITC improves health …

Using data from the 2009 China Health and Nutrition Survey, this study investigates China's income-health gradient by … income-health gradient irrespective of whether the income measure is current or long term. Because risky behavior may … attenuate income's positive effects on health, we also analyze the association between income and such health …

This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the relationship between birth order, health at birth and in childhood …, and parental health investment using administrative data from Austria. We find significant birth order effects on health … utilize medical services. We also find differences in parental health investment. First-born children are more likely to …

different levels of schooling on health, health-related behaviors, and labor market outcomes. We develop an approach that is a … shaping educational choices and labor market and health outcomes. We improve on LATE by identifying the groups affected by …