infant health. Using cross-sectional market averages for 1980 and 1981 in Japan, we find that the nutrient intake of the …

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 …

poor health of young slave children. The sources of deprivation can be traced to the fetal period. The slave work routine …

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 …

areas that bear on the Medicare problem: the number of the elderly, their health status, use of medical care, labor force … expectancy at age 65; 2) a very large increase since 1976 in real per capita health care expenditures on the elderly relative to … expenditures on persons under age 65; 3) a cross-sectional increase with age in per capita health care expenditures that is …

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

the money to the health context, examining the responses to a questionnaire by 325 patients from three outpatient … (favorable or unfavorable) health effect, the other one a probabilistic effect. The majority choices confirm the relevance for … the health context of all three above-mentioned principles. Risk-aversion for gains, risk- seeking for losses and the …

In this paper, I summarize the results of empirical studies in the areas of schooling and health, public programs and … neutral with respect to the question of whether the government should pursue policies to improve the health of its citizens …. But it calls attention to the consequences with respect to health of alternative decisions by policy makers …

between health and years of schooling after controlling for differences in income and other variables. Cigarette smoking is a … health consequences of smoking became widely known; it has remained strong even in the most recent cohorts. This implies that … the mechanism behind the schooling-smoking correlation may also give rise to the schooling-health correlation …

health conditioned on prior health as well as the more usual unconditioned estimates. We find that health is related to … education and marital status though the marital effects are much weaker when we condition for prior health. These effects … in the state of poor health rather than dying …