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 paper studies the interrelated roles of health and welfare state policies in the decision to take up disability … physical or mental illness. We exploit the large international variation of health, self-reported WD and the uptake of DI … benefits in the US and Europe using a harmonized data set with life history information assembled from the Survey of Health …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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

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 …

We examine the effects of the State Innovation Models (SIM) on population-level health status. The SIM initiative … Surveillance System for the years 2010 -- 2016 to compare health of the populations in 6 SIM states to 15 states that were not … involved in any aspects of SIM. We examine changes in health using an event study design. We develop a Latent Class Profile …