, Austria, Czechia, Hungary, Slovakia and Slovenia, whose economic structure is characterized by strong export orientation. We … programmes through development banks, tax/security payment deferrals) though with varying weight and scope. Only in Austria and …

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 …

, triggered by the program, had an impact on women's attitudes towards matters that impact women's health and on attitudes …

of these periods differs across countries. We apply data from the Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe (SHARE … year of birth, controlling for demographic, socioeconomic and health status. We find that economic conditions at birth …

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 …

the public health system, and report lower consumption of health services. This suggests that economic disadvantage and …

In this paper, we address the issue of spurious correlation in the production of health in a systematic way. Spurious … correlation entails the risk of linking health status to medical (and nonmedical) inputs when no links exist. This note first … contribution by Lichtenberg (2004), which relates longevity in the United States to pharmaceutical innovation and public health …

In this study, the authors have tried to examine the empirical evidence on the relationship between preventive health … role of preventive health care in boosting the corporate sector's performance and improving the country's economy. Toward … employees in Delhi and the National Capital Region. Preventive health care holds enormous promise for the competitiveness of …

health status, take up of sickness benefits, retirement, the utilization of health care and social care and the dynamics of …

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 …