This paper makes contributions to the estimation of health production functions and the economics of fertility control …. We present the first infant health production functions that simultaneously control for self selection in the resolution … information conveyed by this decision to refine estimates of infant health production functions and demand functions for prenatal …

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 …

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. …