A growing literature documents cyclical movements in mortality and health. We examine this pattern more closely and … health care …

This paper considers the role of survey design and question phrasing in evaluating the subjective health assessment … responses using the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) dataset. A unique feature of this dataset is that … respondents were twice asked during the survey to evaluate their health on a five-point scale, using two different sets of …

This paper evaluates the health impact of a central piece in the U.S. safety net for families with children: the Earned … health outcomes. We find that increased EITC income reduces the incidence of low birth weight and increases mean birth weight … health behaviors (smoking). We find little role for changes in health insurance. We contribute to the literature by …

. In a financial crisis bank health is significantly damaged. Post-crisis regulatory changes have aimed at restoring bank … health, but measuring bank health by Tobin's Q, we find that the ill health of banks in the recent U.S. financial crisis and …

-imposed lock-downs may not present a clear trade-off between GDP and public health, as commonly believed, even though its immediate …

This paper reexamines differences found between income gradients in American and English children's health, in results … the same time period, the income gradient in children's health increases with age by the same amount in the two countries …. In addition, we find that Currie, Shields and Wheatley Price's measures of chronic conditions from the Health Survey of …

This paper investigates the effects of expanding public health insurance eligibility for older children. Using data … from the National Health Interview Surveys from 1986 to 2005, we first show that although income continues to be an … important predictor of children's health status, the importance of income for predicting health has fallen for children 9 to 17 …

years. This difference persists despite the remarkable progress in health improvement in the last half century, at least … technical progress (some of which is induced by income and facilitated by education) as the ultimate determinant of health. Such … downplay direct causal mechanisms running from income to health …

cash welfare recipients to estimate the effect of childhood Medicaid eligibility on adult health, labor supply, program …-based eligibility accumulated more Medicaid eligibility in childhood but did not differ on a range of other health, socioeconomic, and … extensive margin labor supply, and reduces receipt of disability transfer programs and public health insurance up to 50 years …