supporting such a causal relationship - particularly on child health - is limited. We use two measures of child health to asses … the quantity-quality trade-off across the entire distribution. Using data from the Indonesia Family Life Survey and …

A positive relationship between socio-economic status (SES) and health, the so-called "health-wealth gradient", is … repeatedly found in most industrialized countries with similar levels of health care technology and economic welfare. This study … analyzes causality from health to wealth (health causation) and from wealth to health (wealth or social causation) for elderly …

This paper examines the effect of income polarisation on individual health. We argue that polarisation captures much … better the social tension and conflict that underlie some of the pathways linking income disparities and individual health … polarisation has a detrimental effect on health. We also find that the way the relevant population subgroups are defined is …

We employ data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to investigate income to health causality. To account for … unobserved heterogeneity, we focus on the relationship between earnings growth and changes in self-reported health status. Causal … Granger-type causality running from income to health for married men but not for women or single men. These effects are more …

This paper uses sequential stochastic dominance procedures to compare the joint distribution of health and income … of income and health using procedures that are robust to aggregation techniques. The paper's approach is more general … than comparisons of health gradients and does not require the estimation of health equivalent incomes. We illustrate the …

We examine the effects of trade liberalization on child work in Indonesia. Our estimation strategy identifies …

context of work and retirement patterns in Indonesia, Korea, the United States, and the United Kingdom. As is common in many … Korea and Indonesia. Descriptive evidence is presented suggesting that pension eligible workers are far more likely to cease … productive activity at a relatively young age. A strong relationship between health status and labor supply in rural areas is …

Indonesia on local public spending across communities with different types of local institutions. Our results provide evidence … significantly greater spending on schools and health centres in communities which observe traditional adat laws (which promote an …

towards a need for social protection policies with a focus on health, disability, and employment in Indonesia. … recoveries from disability on both employment status and hours worked using panel data from Indonesia. We find that changes in …

Using longitudinal data from the Canadian National Population Health Survey (NPHS), we study the relationship between … health and employment among older Canadians. We focus on two issues: (1) the possible endogeneity of self-reported health …, particularly ?justification bias?, and (2) the relative importance of health changes and long-term health in the decision to work …