We investigate two-way causality between health and the hourly wage by employing insights from the human capital and … estimation methods in this investigation. We uncover a causal relationship between two of five measures of health and the wage in … which a reduction in health leads to an increase in the wage rate but find no evidence of a causal relationship running from …

-employment, and a job offer to an industrial firm. Despite significant impacts on occupational choice, income, and health in the first … health found after one year also appear to be temporary. These results suggest that one-time and one …

different levels of schooling on health, health-related behaviors, and labor market outcomes. We develop an approach that is a … shaping educational choices and labor market and health outcomes. We improve on LATE by identifying the groups affected by …

, there is limited evidence on the consequences of child labor on socio-economic outcomes such as education, wages, and health … worked as children. We find no significant effects on health. Over a longer horizon, we estimate that from age 30 onward the …

demonstrate their economic value. In this paper, we examine one element of that value, the effect of oral health on labor market … affecting earnings. We find that women who resided in communities with fluoridated water during childhood earn approximately 4 …% more than women who did not, but we find no effect of fluoridation for men. Furthermore, the effect is almost exclusively …

In this paper, we investigate the complex interrelationships among worktime, wages and health identified in the … Grossman model of the demand for health. We specify a 3-equation simultaneous model designed to capture the tune dependent … relationship between worktime and health found in other studies disappears when the relevant simultaneities are accounted for. Our …

implications for population health and the environment: improved cookstoves. Motivated by a model of intra-household decision …-making, the experiment markets stoves to husbands or wives in turn at randomly varying prices. We find that women - who bear … suggest that if women cannot make independent choices about household resource use, public policy may not be able to exploit …

The single largest item in the United States foreign aid health budget is antiretroviral therapy (ART) for the …-based triple difference specification, we find that local ART introduction increased the weight of high HIV likelihood adult women … health in sub-Saharan Africa are surmountable …

. We focus on sharp contrasts in schooling, fertility, and infant health between women born just before and after the …This paper uses age-at-school-entry policies to identify the effect of female education on fertility and infant health … small, but possibly heterogeneous, effects on fertility and infant health. We argue that school entry policies manipulate …

infected with HIV. To identify causal effects, we assume that variation in women's immune system health when HAART was … health is objectively measured using white blood cell (CD4) counts. Because the women in our sample were informed of their CD …We study the impact of a medical breakthrough (HAART) on domestic violence and illicit drug use among low-income women …