We study the relationship between employee satisfaction and abnormal stock returns around the world, using lists of the … investing ("SRI") strategies around the world. In particular, they emphasize the importance of taking institutional features …

-- on biomarkers and health. Nevertheless, we expect that intellectual convergence to happen slowly …

Recent medical research shows that health is highly influential for learning and the ability to think laterally …; however, past economic studies have failed to empirically examine the influence of health on learning, schooling, and ideas … production; the main drivers of growth in endogenous growth models. This paper constructs a measure of health …

between religion and health. The topic is particularly germane for the health of women and of the elderly, who are much more … likely to be religious. In this paper, I use data from the Gallup World Poll to study the within and between country … relationships between religiosity, age, and gender, as well as the effects of religiosity on a range of health measures and health …

In a recent paper, Acemoglu and Johnson (2007) argue that the large increases in population health witnessed in the 20 … health and income do not affect subsequent economic growth. Using their data we reject this assumption in favor of a model of …, exogenous improvements in health due to technical advances associated with the epidemiological transition appear to have …

During 2006, the Gallup Organization conducted a World Poll that used an identical questionnaire for national samples … of adults from 132 countries. I analyze the data on life satisfaction (happiness) and on health satisfaction and look at … inconsistent relationship with happiness. National income moderates the effects of aging on self-reported health, and the decline …

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 …

I use microeconomic estimates of the effect of health on individual outcomes to construct macroeconomic estimates of … the proximate effect of health on GDP per capita. I employ avariety of methods to construct estimates of the return to … health, which I combine with cross-country and historical data on height, adult survival rates, and age at menarche. Using my …

The objective is to review the evidence on (a) ageing and health and (b) the demand for health- and social services … among the elderly. Issues are: does health status of the elderly improve over time, and how do the trends in health status … of the elderly affect the demand for health- and elderly care? It is not a complete review, but it covers most of recent …