We analyze the economic consequences for less developed countries of investing in female health. In so doing we … investments in their education and in which we allow for health-related gender differences in productivity. We show that better … female health speeds up the demographic transition and thereby the take-off toward sustained economic growth. By contrast …

This study examines retirement outcomes in the first four waves of the Health and Retirement Study. Measured retirement …

National Longitudinal Survey of Mature Women (NLS-MW) and the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). These calculations provide …

pain in mid-life (age 44) on health, wellbeing and labor market outcomes in later life. We examine data taken at age 50 in … chronic pain at age 44 continue to report pain and poor general health in their 50s. However, the associations are much … stronger for those with chronic pain. Furthermore, chronic pain at age 44 is associated with a range of poor mental health …

in this paper we specify and estimate a structural limited dependent variable model with which we study both the health … endogeneously determined health status affects the probability of retirement and how changes in social security benefits and …

the level of nutrition and health on economic, social, and demographic behavior. It is based on a set of samples covering …

econometric frameworks: potential outcomes and dynamic programming. It finds large effect heterogeneity of health on work in two … surveys of older workers, the VRI and the HRS. It shows how reduced-form estimates of health on work are biased when there is … of work given health …

We provide some of the first empirical evidence of maternal and fetal health effects of working during pregnancy by … using a unique dataset from the New Jersey Department of Health that includes information not only on pregnancy and birth …