: Longitudinal data was drawn from the Health and Retirement Survey and the RAND-HRS data base for more than 6,000 individuals aged … of six measures including: self-rated health; self-rated memory; activities of daily living; instrumental activities of … work on mood indicators and mortality. For those forced into retirement (20% of the sample), work is not an alternative …

effects on workers’ general health and productivity. The greater the size of the healthcare sector the higher is the …

The paper examines the effect of top income shares on the crude death and infant mortality rates. We use balanced panel … mortality rates. The most important finding is that there is no overall relationship between top income shares and mortality. If …

estimation of mortality using the capital city of 22 OECD countries from the period 1990 to 2008. The empirical results provide … strong evidences that higher income and a lower unemployment rate could reduce mortality rates, while the increases in … precipitation and temperature variation have significantly positive impacts on the mortality rates. The effects of changing average …

This paper disc;usses socioeconomic mortality differentials in Pakistan on the basis of data collected in 1979 from a …, land holding, tenurial status, and the mortality experience of households. The mortality data obtained from the PLM survey … are discussed briefly in the first section of the paper; Mortality differentials by characteristics of the child, mother …

the Project "Analysis of trends and patterns of mortality in the ESCAP region". Six countries including Bangladesh, China … should be national compilations of data. This report analyses mortality trends and patterns in Pakistan and is organised in … three parts. The first part consists of country profile, levels and trends of mortality, mortality differentials and …

die from infectious disease, childhood health affects human capital and noninfectious-disease related adult mortality … that life expectancy at birth is a poor indicator of population health unless morbidity falls with mortality. …. When child mortality falls from lower prevalence, as in western Europe, labor productivity improves, fertility falls and …

I examine the effects of education on health in Indonesia using an exogenous variation in education induced by an … health. I explore some mechanisms through which education may affect health, but education does not seem to promote healthy … lifestyles, increase the use of modern healthcare services, or improve access to health insurance; if anything, education …

of within-community differences in victimization risk on changes in self-rated and mental health. My results from fixed … effects and instrumental variable estimations point towards substantial negative health effects of actual victimization, which …

This paper presents the first empirical assessment of the causal relationship between social capital and health in … perceived good health. …