The aim of this paper is to assess the impact of the Community Health Center (CHC) on health levels in the U.S. Using … infant mortality as the underlying health indicator, a time series of large counties as the data set, and multivariate … reduction in the excess mortality rate of black babies has been dentfied as a goal of public health policy for a number of years …

The aim of this paper is to assess the impact of the Community Health Center (CHC) on health levels in the U.S. Using … infant mortality as the underlying health indicator, a time series of large counties as the data set, and multivariate … reduction in the excess mortality rate of black babies has been dentfied as a goal of public health policy for a number of years …

This Volume focuses on human capital and health behavior. Content is based on an International symposium on Human … Capital and Health Behavior, held by The Centre for Health Economics at the University of Gothenburg. Content will cover both …Front Cover -- Human Capital and Health Behavior -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Contributors …

provide money and/or psychic income. Health behaviour affects human capital and is itself affected by the individual's human … between Human Capital and Health Behaviour. …

Many studies suggest that years of formal schooling completed is the most important correlate of good health. There is … much less consensus as to whether this correlation reflects causality from more schooling to better health. The … relationship may be traced in part to reverse causality and may also reflect "omitted third variables" that cause health and …

We investigate two-way causality between health and the hourly wage by employing insights from the human capital and … estimation methods in this investigation. We uncover a causal relationship between two of five measures of health and the wage in … which a reduction in health leads to an increase in the wage rate in a panel of U.S. young adults who had completed their …

consumption over time, own (adult) health and inputs into the production of own health, fertility, and child quality or well …-being reflected by their health and cognitive development. They are distinguished from the labor market outcomes of education in terms … these effects operate. The chapter pays a good deal of attention to the effects of education on health for a variety of …