We study the contribution of health-related behaviors to the health-education gradient by distinguishing between short … behaviors in the health production function. Focusing on self-reported poor health as our health outcome, we find that education … has a protective effect for European males and females aged 50+. We also find that the mediating effects of health …

's counterfactual work behavior. We show that extending parental leave has significant positive effects on children's health and human …

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 …

compared to the surrounding cohorts. The results indicate that investments in early-life health may have far reaching effects …

Process benefit scores indicates that time with own children is preferred before all other activities, closely followed … market work and time with children are strongly interdependent. Economic incentives work primarily through decisions about … hours influences less the parents' time with their children than a change in the father's work hours does. This would imply …

overall improvement in the health at birth (as measured by the low birth weight indicator) of the cohorts exposed to the shock … consequences. In this paper we consider the effect of an arguably more common and milder shock generated by a major and unexpected …. Moreover, we find significant improvements in health at birth exclusively for boys and not for girls. This effect seems to be …

variation in the test score convergence across states and racial convergence in measures of health and hospital access in the … earnings gaps match those in early life health and test scores already established. It also addresses caveats in the earlier …

In present day Germany, one in seven children is raised in a single parent household. We investigate the effect of … single parenthood on children's educational attainment, measured by the school track at the age 14, using ordered probit … children drawn from the German Socio-Economic Panel. …

We examine the effect of single motherhood on children's secondary school track choice using 12-year-old children drawn … correlation between single motherhood and children's educational attainment. Looking for alternative explanations for this …