We examine whether income shocks affect a range of health outcomes and a preventative behaviour. We instrument income …-cyclical effect of income on health. A ten percent increase in income reduces by 0.2 the number of illnesses. A further finding is the … positive effect on vaccinations of children under six: a ten percent increase in income implies an increase of about one …

This paper investigates the relationships between social circumstances, individual behaviours, and ill-health later in …' smoking and health outcomes (lifespan and time-to-cancer) is jointly estimated, using the 1984/5 British Health and Lifestyle … behaviours as well as health outcomes. Results from this discrete latent factor model are found to be substantially different to …

Theoretically, there are several reasons to expect education to have a positive effect on health, and empirical … research suggests that education can be an important health determinant. However, it has not yet been established whether … education and health are indeed causally-related, and the effects found in previous studies may be partially attributable to …

The increasingly explicit use of health technology assessment continues to generate substantial public and academic …

We examine the impact of new medical information on drug safety on preventive health behavior. We exploit the release … of the findings of the Women's Health Initiative Study (WHIS) – the largest randomized controlled trial of women's health … estimate the spillover effects of the WHIS findings on health behavior by means of a difference-in-differences methodology …

inequities in ANC and delivery care services using the latest three waves of Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey. This study … around 0.20 for receiving ANC from medically trained provider. Findings indicate that inequity in delivery at health facility … about 3 times more likely to have 4+ ANC visits (OR=2.91, 95% CI: 2.24-3.78), delivery at health facility (OR=3.16, 95% CI …

specification and it is preferable to use more sensitive indicators of newborn health. …

This paper exploits rich SOEP microdata to analyze state-level variation in health care utilization in Germany. Unlike … individual-level and state-level factors that may contribute to the geographic variation in health care utilization. The raw data …-level differences vanish once we control for individual-level socio-economic characteristics, the respondents’ health status, their …