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 …

This study investigates whether rights to paid parental leave improve pediatric health, as measured by birth weights … senior citizens, whose health is not expected to be affected by parental leave. More generous leave rights are found to … may be a cost-effective method of bettering child health …

were impaired in the performance of at least one basic activity. It describes their wealth, living arrangements, and health … characteristics. Tobit regressions are presented that relate utilization of hospital services, paid home-health care, and unreimbursed … home-health care utilization in this population are distinct from the factors that have been significant predictors of …

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 …