sophisticated consumers of advertising and use it to make more health-promoting decisions. …

This paper contributes to the small but growing literature evaluating the health effects of the Earned Income Tax … federal EITC expansion on several outcomes related to mental health and subjective well-being. The identification strategy … suggest that the 1990 EITC reform generated sizeable health benefits for low-skilled mothers. Such women experienced lower …

The objective of this paper is to assess the relationship between the health and the income from work of wage earners … and self-employed workers in Cameroon. Health status is measured by a self-assessment of an individual's health; and … a simultaneous equation model to explore the relationship between health and income, allowing for the endogeneity of …

We report evidence of long-term adverse health impacts of in utero exposure to malnutrition based on survivors in their … data provided by the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) to corroborate evidence supporting the Fetal … Origin Hypothesis. We find that fetal exposure to malnutrition has large and long-lasting impacts on both physical health and …

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 …