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 …

different health related choices, to estimate its effect on health choices and to estimate the effect of self-regulation on … health-demographic gradients. The theory and empirical approach to self-regulation employed in this paper relies on a broad … set of proxy variables allows for the study of how self-regulation is correlated across different health choices. The …

We explore economic model of health behaviors. While the standard economic model of health as an investment is …. Most prominently, the correlation of different health behaviors across people is virtually zero, suggest that standard …

Although the impact of education on health is important for economic policy in developing countries, the overwhelming … majority of research to identify the health returns to education has been done using data from developed countries. We use data … from three waves of a nationally-representative health survey, conducted between 2008 and 2012 in Turkey, and exploit an …

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 …

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 …

policy analysis, such as spurious reductions in measured health system performance as screening expands …

primarily the symptom of real declines in the health of near-elderly Americans, relative to their European peers. In particular …, we use a microsimulation approach to project what US longevity would look like, if US health trends approximated those in … Europe. We find that differences in health can explain most of the growing gap in remaining life expectancy. In addition, we …