Many studies have shown that obesity is a serious health problem for our society. Empirical analyses often neglect a … number of methodological issues and relevant influences on health. This paper investigates empirically whether neglecting … derives the following results.(1) Many combinations of weight and height lead to the same health status. (2) Obese people have …

The positive cross-country correlation between health and economic growth is well-established, but the underlying … causality between health and economic growth is empirically challenging. Second, the relation between health and economic growth … changes over the process of economic development. Third, different dimensions of health (mortality vs. morbidity, children …

Micro-based and macro-based approaches have been used to assess the effects of health on economic growth. Micro …-based approaches aggregate the return on individual health from Mincerian wage regressions to derive the macroeconomic effects of … population health. Macro-based approaches estimate a generalized aggregate production function that decomposes output into its …

We analyze the economic consequences for less developed countries of investing in female health. In so doing we … investments in their education and in which we allow for health-related gender differences in productivity. We show that better … female health speeds up the demographic transition and thereby the take-off toward sustained economic growth. By contrast …

Social stress can cause physical and mental harm. It is therefore not surprising that public health policy makers have … coefficient coincides with increasing social stress. If the aim of public policy is to improve public health and increase social …

We explore how involuntary and voluntary exits from self-employment affect life and health satisfaction. To that end …-employment exit) brings small improvements in health and life satisfaction, the negative psychological costs of business failure (i … physical health and behaviors such as smoking and drinking, implying that the costs of losing self-employment are largely …

Longevity Survey, we study health in oldest old population. We measure health using the Katz Index of Activities of Daily Living … bad health both in term of the Index of ADL and mortality. Effects of gender on the Index of ADL and on mortality are … level of the oldest-old and of his/her spouse, etc., plays an insignificant role in the health of oldest-old. Oldest …

healthcare utilization and health outcomes among non-COVID–19 patients. Using monthly panel data of nationally representative …-of-pocket medical costs, and perceived health. At its peak, doctor visits decreased by 30% and out-of-pocket medical spending decreased …-reported health and sleep quality, COVID–19 increased depressive symptoms by 4%. We argue that it is imperative to monitor COVID–19's …

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 …

insurance. Across a range of health measures, we estimate no significant impacts on health …