This note examines whether subjective general health in Europe has changed since the onset of the economic crisis …. Subjective general health for Ireland, Spain and Portugal is compared before and after the onset of the recession. Two other … or very good health is also plotted against the change in the unemployment rate over the period 2007-2012. Subjective …

demographics, human capital and health status. While parsimonious models suggest that height is protective against depression, the … addition of controls, particularly related to health, suggests the reverse effect: tall people are predicted to have slightly … health and human capital. -- Height ; Depression ; Well-being ; Life satisfaction ; Health …

retirement across Canadian provinces. Using linked employeremployee tax data, we show that the bans cause large and similar … reductions in job separation rates and retirement hazards at age 65, with further reductions at higher ages. The effects vary … on savings behavior, workplace injuries, and spousal retirement timing. …

Despite the fact that there are over a million new cancer cases detected in the U.S. every year, none of retirement-health … eligibility on retirement. With data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), I use a difference-in-differences model to show … literature focuses specifically on the effect that cancer has on retirement. Social Security may offer a pathway to retirement …

The relationship between recessions and health is mixed, with some evidence from the most recent financial crisis … the Irish crisis of 2008, to test the impact of economic expansion and contraction on mothers physical and mental health … and health behaviours. Three waves of data from the Irish Lifeways Cohort Study for the period 2001-2011, and local area …

home environment of disadvantaged families, on child health in the first 3 years of life. We recruited and randomized 233 … commencing at 2 years. Maternal reports of child health are assessed at 6, 12, 18, 24, and 36 months. Treatment effects are … health (10.0 pp), hospitalizations (8.2 pp), immunizations (8.6 pp), chest infections (12.2 pp) and the number of health …

Birth weight is an important aspect of public health which has been linked to increased risk of infant death, increased …, including test scores, hospital stays and health. An advantage of the data is that I am able to control for a number of … conditions and later outcomes. -- Early Life Conditions ; Birth Weight ; Health Inequalities ; Test Scores …

Early life conditions have been linked to various domains of later life health, including cardiovascular outcomes … health are related to hypertension, although there is cross country heterogeneity in these effects. I account for potential … omitted variable bias by using aggregate measures of public health at birth, which are plausibly exogenous to the individual …

Evidence for the short-term impact of early intervention on childhood health is weak and inconsistent. Using rigorous … programme on child health. The treatment provides mentoring visits from pregnancy until school entry to improve child outcomes … through positively affecting parenting. In a context where socioeconomic inequalities in health have yet to emerge, modest …