To combat growing levels of obesity, health related taxes have been suggested with taxes on foods high in fat or sugar …

despite reduced transfers. We find precise zero effects on total health expenditures for both mothers and children. However …, composition changes, including fewer family physician visits, indicate that mothers had less time to seek health care. We find …

on aggregate health expenditures, but mothers saw reduced preventative care and increased mental health treatment …, consistent with the transition to employment elevating time pressure and stress. We find no effect on teenagers' education and …

This paper reviews developments in income and health poverty in Ireland over the 2003-2011 period using data from the … poverty fell up to and including 2009, after which this trend is reversed. Health poverty shows less of a trend over the … period though there is some evidence of a reduction in health inequality from 2006. Movements in bi-dimensional poverty are …

income and health poverty. The correlation between income and poverty is examined using the Receiver Operating …

Education yields substantial non-monetary benefits, but the size of these gains is still debated. Previous studies, for … example, report contradictory effects of education and compulsory schooling on mortality – ranging from zero to large … compulsory education both in the shorter and longer run. In contrast, compulsory schooling reforms have little or no effect on …

Birth weight is an important aspect of public health which has been linked to increased risk of infant death, increased … between birth weight and socioeconomic status. A strong association with maternal education does not appear to be due to the …, including test scores, hospital stays and health. An advantage of the data is that I am able to control for a number of …