economic measures would change if they adequately reflected improvements in health status. The study first discusses the theory … health status of the population. The present study develops a methodology and presents preliminary estimates of how standard … concept called 'health income' that can be used to incorporate improvements in health status. The study next discusses how the …

key links between pollution, human health, and labor productivity. Together, these assumptions imply that the benefits of … regulation to provide benefits through several different channels, including improved health or productivity. The model shows … that when the benefits of reduced pollution come in the form of improved health or productivity, the benefits do affect …

finding, arguing that the health benefits from reduced pollution will also interact with pre-existing taxes, possibly causing … for health effects by representing environmental quality and leisure as substitutes in utility. The present paper employs … considers health effects. It shows that interactions with health effects from pollution actually will tend to reduce the optimal …

OPM counts health benefits or assets as resources. Validation studies suggest that subtracting MOOP from resources worsens …The SPM is based on a 1995 NAS report that recommended a health-exclusive poverty measure, despite considering it …, conceptually, a "second best" to a Health-Inclusive Poverty Measure (HIPM). We analyze the reasons for the NAS recommendation and …

We develop a pair of risk measures, health and mortality delta, for the universe of life and health insurance products …. A life-cycle model of insurance choice simplifies to replicating the optimal health and mortality delta through a … portfolio of insurance products. We estimate the model to explain the observed variation in health and mortality delta implied …