an integrated developmental approach to child and adult health that considers the costs and benefits of interventions … over the life cycle. We suggest policies to promote child health which are currently outside the boundaries of conventional …

mental health in a sample of rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta). We analyze the health records of 231 monkeys which were … detrimental long-term effects on health which are not compensated by a normal social environment later in life …

insurance (DI) benefits due to work disability (WD), defined as the (partial) inability to engage in gainful employment due to …This paper studies the interrelated roles of health and welfare state policies in the decision to take up disability … physical or mental illness. We exploit the large international variation of health, self-reported WD and the uptake of DI …

those who are not already age-eligible for an old-age pension and who are deemed unable to work for health reasons. In this … paper, we use two sets of individual survey data to study the role of health and financial incentives in early retirement …

This paper examines the long-term impacts on health and healthy behaviors of two of the oldest and most widely cited U … early life interventions for promoting health …

An open question in the literature is whether families compensate or reinforce the impact of child health shocks … negative early health shocks at ages 0-3, the other twin sibling who did suffer negative health shocks received RMB 305 more in … terms of health investments, but received RMB 182 less in terms of educational investments in the 12 months prior to the …

whose employment patterns are or were hardly affected by the current (early) retirement incentives. Using these “pure health … benefits. Often, poor health is cited as the main reason why workers cannot work until the regular retirement age. In this … market if they wanted to and if they were not limited by poor health? To answer this question, we follow two different …

Health, wealth and where one lives are important, if not the three most important material living conditions. There are … many mechanisms that suggest that living arrangements and well-being derived from health and economic status are closely …

, because health is not directly measurable and can only be described by indicators such as ADLs and IADLs, it explores a new … econometric approach to model the influence of the latent health status on living arrangements. Second, it exploits the NBER …

-term health and smoking behaviour. We explore the roles that cognitive and non-cognitive skills may play in moderating these … schooling system produced significant negative effects on long-term health and increased smoking behavior among a small fraction … transmission channel of the long-term impact on health outcomes …