This study examines a wide range of health and economic outcomes in a sample of Irish- and African-American Civil War …

occupations and whether to commute to work or work from home, to maximize their income and minimize their fear of infection …-imposed lock-downs may not present a clear trade-off between GDP and public health, as commonly believed, even though its immediate …

parental resources during our upbringing that can be influenced by public policy? We study the formation of adult health and … biological and adopting parents. We find that the health of the biological parents affects the health of their adopted children …-term health. However, we also find strong evidence that the educational attainment of the adopting mother has a significant impact …

service on health and income. This research has shown that effects of veteran status on mortality and earnings that appeared …

, unemployment, incarceration, health, and so on. This chapter contains three themes. First, relative to the 20th century, the …

earlier years of schooling, or whether education raises health directly or through income or wealth. In this paper, I examine … how the timing of educational attainment is important for adult health outcomes, income, and wealth, in order to … pronounced for income and wealth. In the full sample, the marginal effects on the probability of fair or poor health at age 55 of …

There are many possible pathways between parental education, income, and health, and between child health and education … status (as measured by education, income, occupation, or in some cases area of residence) and child health, and between child … health and adult education or income. Specifically, I ask two questions: What is the evidence regarding whether parental …

-term effect of Vietnam-era military service on health …

inconsistent relationship with happiness. National income moderates the effects of aging on self-reported health, and the decline … of adults from 132 countries. I analyze the data on life satisfaction (happiness) and on health satisfaction and look at … their relationships with national income, age, and life-expectancy. Average happiness is strongly related to per capita …