The channels by which better health leads to higher income, and those by which higher income protects health status …, are of interest to both researchers and policy makers. In general, quantifying the impact of income on health is difficult …, given the simultaneous determination of health and income. In this paper, we quantify the impact on health status of a large …

There is a large and robust correlation between adult health and education, part of which likely reflects causality … running from education into health. Less clear is whether education obtained later in life is as valuable for health as are … earlier years of schooling, or whether education raises health directly or through income or wealth. In this paper, I examine …

While economists have posited that health investments increase earnings, isolating the causal effect of health is … earnings and family income. We find few differences in estimated gains by baseline health and occupation characteristics …

years. This difference persists despite the remarkable progress in health improvement in the last half century, at least … technical progress (some of which is induced by income and facilitated by education) as the ultimate determinant of health. Such … downplay direct causal mechanisms running from income to health …