To analyze the effect of health on work, many studies use a simple self-assessed health measure based upon a question … such as "do you have an impairment or health problem limiting the kind or amount of work you can do?" A possible drawback … fact that they don't work, non-working respondents may classify a given health problem as a more serious work limitation …

Looking across many diseases, average health among mature men is much worse in America compared to England. Second …, there exists a steep negative health gradient for men in both countries where men at the bottom of the economic hierarchy … are in much worse health than those at the top. This health gradient exists whether education, income, or financial wealth …

Smith uses the HRS and AHEAD panels to examine the consequences of new health on a series of SES related outcomes- out …-of-pocket labor supply, labor force activity, household income and wealth. For each of these outcomes, new severe health events have a … health status. The reasons for this continuing predictive effect of education are explored in the paper …

In this paper, we investigate the issue of partner selection in the health of individuals who are at least fifty years … education of partners and their parents. Adult health behaviors such as smoking, drinking, and exercise are more positively … associated in England compared to the United States. Childhood health indicators are also positively associated across partners …

In this paper we examine the link between retrospectively reported measures of childhood health and the prevalence of … Health and Retirement Study and the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing - nationally representative surveys of the age 50 … plus population in America and England respectively. We show that the origins of poorer adult health among older Americans …