poor health makes people less productive, we expect to find a negative effect of previous health history on hourly wages …. If, instead, poor health reduces people´s working capacity, but not their productivity, this implies only a decrease in …

suggest that there was more heterogeneity among spells grouped by the factors related to the health status of the individual …

longitudinal database. If poor health makes people less productive, previous sickness is expected to have a negative effect on … hourly wages. If poor health reduces people’s working capacity, but not their productivity, it is expected to decrease the …

A number of behaviours influence health in a non-monotonic way. Physical activity and alcohol consumption, for instance …, may be beneficial to one’s health in moderate but detrimental in large quantities. We develop a demand-for-health …-optimal level, because of the trade-off in his or her preferences for health versus other utility-affecting commodities. However …

were removed from power, to understand its impact on childrens health at birth and during early childhood and whether the … lift of the ban had an immediate impact on child abandonment. We find insignificant estimates for health at birth outcomes …

suggests that this may have negative long-term health effects on their offspring. Building upon the work of Almond and Mazumder …’s pregnancy have a poorer general health and are sick more often than people who were not exposed. This effect is especially … pronounced among older people, who, when exposed, also report health problems more often that are indicative of coronary heart …

We investigate if there is a causal link between education and health knowledge using data from the 1984/85 and 1991 …/92 waves of the UK Health and Lifestyle Survey (HALS). Uniquely, the survey asks respondents what they think are the main … causes of ten common health conditions, and we compare these answers to those given by medical professionals to form an index …