occupational status is related to the health transitions of 30 to 59 year-old U.S. males. A recent history of blue …-collar employment predicts a substantial increase in the probability of transitioning from very good into bad self-assessed health …, relative to white-collar employment, but with no evidence of occupational differences in movements from bad to very good health …

We show that individuals who are in poorer health, independently from smoking, are more likely to start smoking and to … smoke more cigarettes than those with better non-smoking health. We present evidence of selection, relying on extensive data … on morbidity and mortality. We show that health based selection into smoking has increased over the last fifty years with …

In this paper we investigate the contribution of health related behaviors to the education gradient, using an empirical … approach that addresses the endogeneity of both education and behaviors in the health production function. We apply this … approach to a multi-country data set, which includes 12 European countries and has information on education, health and health …

an integrated developmental approach to child and adult health that considers the costs and benefits of interventions … over the life cycle. We suggest policies to promote child health which are currently outside the boundaries of conventional …

explore potential mechanisms, including differential earnings, health insurance, and health behaviors, using data from the …

This paper investigates the relationship between personality traits in adolescence and health behaviours using a large … at age 15-16, on the incidence of health behaviours such as: alcohol consumption; cannabis and other drug use … adolescent and family characteristics and we find that personality traits do affect health behaviours. In particular, individuals …

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 …

of education on health behaviors. Using the number of academic track schools in a state as an instrumental variable for … years of schooling, we investigate the causal effect of schooling on health behavior such as smoking and related outcomes …

We study the evolution of health investment over the life-cycle by calibrating a model of endogenous health … both cases, health and health investment play a crucial role as the former encroaches upon healthy time and the latter … crowds out non-medical expenditures as people age. Finally, we quantify the value of health as both an investment and a …

primarily the symptom of real declines in the health of near-elderly Americans, relative to their European peers. In particular …, we use a microsimulation approach to project what US longevity would look like, if US health trends approximated those in … Europe. We find that differences in health can explain most of the growing gap in remaining life expectancy. In addition, we …