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 …

Using administrative panel data of health insurants, we estimate the effects of low birth weight on health service …, we use sibling fixed- effects estimation. We find that low birth weight strongly increases subsequent health expenditures … shift in expenditures to mental-health problems. Whereas the effects on physical health disappear over time, we provide …

effect, often referred to as culling, may induce a bias in estimates of later life outcomes. When the health shock … paramount for the evaluation of the 1918 flu pandemic and other fetal health shocks. …

This paper frames the state of mental health policy in India in terms of seven sets of questions, and seeks to provide … momentum in changing the relatively poor state of mental health care in India. …

Fluoridation of the drinking water is a public policy whose aim is to improve dental health. Although the evidence is … clear that fluoride is good for dental health, concerns have been raised regarding potential negative effects on cognitive … investigate and confirm the long-established positive relationship between fluoride and dental health. Second, we find precisely …

We identify the ages that constitute critical periods in children's development towards their adult health status. For …-run health is proxied by adult height. The relation between siblings' ages at migration and their heights after age 18 allows us …