We use British panel data to explore the exogenous impact of income on a number of individual health outcomes: general … health status, mental health, physical health problems, and health behaviours (drinking and smoking). Lottery winnings allow … us to make causal statements regarding the effect of income on health, as the amount won is largely exogenous. These …

We re-examine the impact of environmental taxation on health and output, in the presence of labor market frictions. Our … taxation on health. We also demonstrate that rising abatement expenditures as a way of tightening the environmental policy … would be better for health than increasing environmental tax in the presence of market labor imperfections. …

private education and health systems has raised concerns about the future of an already fragmented social contract in Latin … America. In this chapter, we examine the evolution of the use of private education and private health insurance in selected … with a substantial proportion of households opting for private schools. On the other hand, opting out from public health is …