, health, and criminal activity. Measured personality is interpreted as a construct derived from an economic model of … traits are positively correlated over the life cycle. However, they are not fixed and can be altered by experience and … effect of personality traits on economic and social outcomes. Personality traits are more malleable over the life cycle …

We are the first to examine the effect of Superfund cleanups on infant health rather than focusing on proximity to a …

occupational status is related to the health transitions of 30 to 59 year-old U.S. males. A recent history of blue …-collar employment predicts a substantial increase in the probability of transitioning from very good into bad self-assessed health …, relative to white-collar employment, but with no evidence of occupational differences in movements from bad to very good health …

Occupational choice is a significant input into individuals' health investments, operating in a manner that can be … either health-promoting or health-depreciating. Recent studies have highlighted the potential importance of initial … a causal relationship between initial occupational choice at labor entry and subsequent health behaviors and habits. We …

Recent research shows that health at birth is affected by many factors, including maternal education, behaviors, and … generations. Exposure to environmental pollution is one potential determinant of health at birth that has received increasing …

service on health and income. This research has shown that effects of veteran status on mortality and earnings that appeared …, researchers may be neglecting an area of life that could be more sensitive to the psychological effects of military service …: household and family life. In the present study we use the same IV approach to model the causal impact of Vietnam- era military …

well-being. The paper focuses on international evidence. We report the patterns in modern data; we discuss what has been … -- on biomarkers and health. Nevertheless, we expect that intellectual convergence to happen slowly …

and health outcomes. The study analyzes the life trajectories of children born between 1945 and 1968, and followed through … of incarceration, and improved adult health status; desegregation had no effects on whites across each of these outcomes …