deterioration of the health care system, changes in diet and obesity, and material deprivation fail to explain the increase in …

We investigate the evolution of health over the life-cycle. We allow for two sources of persistence: unobserved … individual characteristics that trace back to early adulthood and before can have far reaching effects on health. …

This paper investigates the sensitivity of the intergenerational transmission of health to exogenous changes in income …, education and public health, changes that are often delivered by economic growth. It uses individual survey data on 2.24 million … maternal and child health as well as in aggregate economic conditions. The country-level panel is exploited to control for …

undermines the notion that economic growth comes with health warnings. We revisit this debate going over the mortality effects of … obesity, using the US Health and Retirement Study. Whilst we find that obesity leads to chronic diseases that reduce length of …

The standard economic model for the demand for health care predicts that unhealthy behaviour such as being overweight … primary physician (GP) services according to the individual's latent health status. Based on a sample of wage-earners aged 25 …-60 years drawn from the National Health Interview (NHI) survey 2000 and merged to Danish register data, we compare differences …

. We use data from the Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) among elderly individuals. This survey is …, socioeconomic and health status. We find that being born during a recession or boom period significantly influences cognitive …

services on maternal and infant health. Since basic medical care has been universally available in Ukraine, implementation of … the Mother and Infant Health Project allows addressing quality rather than quantity effect of medical care. Employing … improvements in both maternal and infant health compared to the control rayons. Among the infant health outcomes, the MIHP impact …

international remittances raise health care expenditures. Approximately 6 pesos of every 100 peso increment in remittance income are … spent on health. The sensitivity of health care expenditures to variations in the level of international remittances is … almost three times greater than its responsiveness to changes in other sources of household income. Furthermore, health care …