In this paper we investigate if there was a causal effect of changes in current and 'permanent' income on the health of … income and health, the fixed-effects methodology additionally enables us to controlfor individual unobservable heterogeneity … health we find evidence of a significant positive effect of current income on health. However, after controlling for …

) quality, ii) efficiency, and iii) ownership.i) Quality of health care is the most important good of the health production … of competition on quality of care.ii) The health economy also merits attention because of its sheer size e.g. with … industrialised countries, approximately one third of health care expenditure is generated by inpatient care. For this reason …

educational and health aspirations. Like earlier studies we find that income aspirations increase with both the individual’s own …Econometric analyses of European datasets suggest that income aspirations increase with current income. This finding is … individuals with considerably poorer living conditions; and we expand the analysis to look not only at income but also at …

analysis is to investigate the importance of health, education, and infrastructure indicators for income growth. The second … poverty line. I also find that infrastructure has not been an important determinant for income mobility, and neither has … health. Only the higher education of poor urban households seems to have affected prospects for growing out of poverty, and …

related to health status across middle/low and high-income countries. The dependent variable is self-assessed health (SAH …. Correcting for national differences in health reporting behavior, individual absolute income is found to be positively related to … individual health. Furthermore, in the high-income sample, there is strong evidence that average income within a peer-age group …

supply function using data for 15 high income countries, 1971-2001. Our health production function estimates show that … associated with major health risks, including cardiovascular disease, diabetes, stroke, and some forms of cancer; large health … establishes the econometric underpinning of an aggregate household health production function and an aggregate household health …

Health, like schooling, is a form of human capital and can be expected to be positively related to labor productivity … and labor supply. The production of good health and labor productivity, however, sometimes competes with an individual …'s lifestyle, e.g., binge drinking. In this study, an individual's health has three dimensions: current health status, binge …

Education, child nutrition, adult health/nutrition, and labor mobility are critical factors in achieving recent …

A calibrated model is used to determine the welfare impacts of various regulatory instruments for improving health. The … laboratory, information about health effects leads to a statistically significant decrease (increase) in the willingness to pay … subsidy directly internalize health characteristics. The information policy combined with a per-unit tax on tuna and a per …

health or environmental advantages of organic production and consideration of sensory (taste) acceptance. To do this … information was provided was greater than WTP when health information was given. When sensory taste information was included …, however, the WTP estimates under the health information treatment were about twice those under the environmental information …