We investigate the returns to college attendance in Canada in terms of health and mortality reduction. To do so, we … first use a dynamic health microsimulation model to document how interventions which incentivize college attendance among … high school graduates may impact their health trajectory, health care consumption and life expectancy. We find large …

The effect of job loss on health may play an important role in the development of the SES-health gradient. In this … the Health and Retirement Study and biomarker measures collected in 2006 and 2008. We use a variety of econometric methods … that business closures lead to worse health outcomes. We also find no evidence that biomarker health measures predict …

While there is mounting evidence that large income shocks, e.g. in the form of a job loss, may impact health and … income constant, and health. This paper exploits rich survey data on the near-elderly in Canada paired with their … administrative tax records to investigate whether a relationship exists between health and well-being on the one hand, and individual …

A positive relationship between socio-economic status (SES) and health, the so-called "health-wealth gradient", is … repeatedly found in most industrialized countries with similar levels of health care technology and economic welfare. This study … analyzes causality from health to wealth (health causation) and from wealth to health (wealth or social causation) for elderly …