. This paper tests whether health disparities across education are to some extent due to differences in reporting error … health disparities across education that average 19.3%. …One of the most robust findings in health economics is that higher-educated individuals tend to be in better health …

A rich economic literature has examined the human capital impacts of disease-eliminating health interventions, such as … educational, economic, or health outcomes. The reduced-form approach, on the other hand, shows that these long-term outcomes …

Influenza and air pollution each pose significant public health risks with large global economic consequences. The … common pathways through which each harms health presents an interesting case of compounding risk via interacting … significantly increase influenza hospitalizations. We exploit random variations in the effectiveness of the influenza vaccine as an …

in Nigeria. Second, there are no within gender disparities of the shift to democracy on income and returns to education …. However, disparities in income benefits are at lower levels of education. Men and women have similar income benefits at the …

richer interpretation of regional disparities, and (ii) can capture the unemployment effects of growing variables such as …

(NRU) hypothesis as an explanation of the evolution of regional disparities in the unemployment rate. We first present our … persistent disparities in the regional unemployment rates. Through standard kernel density tecnhiques, we demonstrate the … natural rates. Our findings confirm that the evolution of regional disparities cannot be attributed to disparities in the …

We describe how ethnic disparities in the labor market between prime aged Hispanic and non-Hispanic white men have …

. Despite the large regional disparities in China, there is a lack of evidence on the differential patterns of medical services …

expressing health care-seeking behavior as a function of economic and behavioral fundamentals and highlighting the role of trust …. We report several findings. First, we document a strong association between higher levels of trust in the health care … scenarios, from routine check-ups to vaccinations. Second, the impact of trust on health care utilization is similar in …