Using a matched insurant-general practitioner panel data set, we estimated the effect of a general health …-screening program on individuals' health status and health care cost. To account for selection into treatment, we used regional … screening participation substantially increased inpatient and outpatient health care costs for up to two years after treatment …

This paper interprets accidents occurring on the way to and from work as negative health shocks to identify the causal … effect of health on labor market outcomes. We argue that in our sample of exactly matched treated and control workers, these … health shocks are quasi-randomly assigned. A fixed-effects difference-in-differences approach estimates a negative and …

In this paper, we test for the existence of socioeconomic heterogeneity in the effect of health shocks on labor market … hospitalizations as a measure of health shocks. Our results suggest large heterogeneity in the effects, where low educated individuals … suffer relatively more from a given health shock. This result holds across a wide range of different health shocks and our …

analysis on a field experiment in a lunch restaurant. Our results suggest that meal consumption does not increase if the meal …

Health economists have studied the determinants of the expected value of health status as a function of medical and … additional benefit, viz. a reduced variability of health status. Using OECD health data for 24 countries between 1960 and 2004 …

labor market in Sweden since the late 1990s. We investigate whether or not there are potentials, with respect to health and … as much as the age group 50-54 at a particular level of health. We also provide evidence on the development of self …-assessed health and health inequality in the Swedish population. …

In the conventional QALY model, people's preferences are assumed to satisfy utility independence. When health varies … over time, utility independence implies that the value attached to a health state is independent of the health state that …