central problems in public finance, including the optimal structure of health insurance and optimal life cycle savings. In …If the marginal utility of consumption depends on health status, this will affect the economic analysis of a number of … this paper, we describe the promises and challenges of various approaches to estimating the effect of health on the …

This paper deals with the phenomenon of risk-selection and its appearance in the german compulsory health insurance …

prevent firms from conditioning wages on health conditions of their workers, and that prevent health insurance companies from …This paper constructs a dynamic model of health insurance to evaluate the short- and long run effects of policies that … charging individuals with adverse health conditions higher insurance premia. Our study is motivated by recent US legislation …

Height is consulted as a latent indicator of early nutrition and lifetime health status. Height is observed to increase … in recent decades in populations where per capita national income has increased and public health activities have grown …. Height is determined by genetic make up and realized in part through satisfactory nutrition and health related care and …

This paper interprets accidents occurring on the way to and from work as negative health shocks to identify the causal … effect of health on labor market outcomes. We argue that in our sample of exactly matched treated and control workers, these … health shocks are quasi-randomly assigned. A fixed-effects difference-in-differences approach estimates a negative and …

future net-income risks. The uncertainty measure takes into account the interdependency of labour market status and health …

health and employment among older Canadians. We focus on two issues: (1) the possible endogeneity of self-reported health … estimates of the impact of health on employment using self-assessed health, the HUI3, and a ?purged? health measure similar to …Using longitudinal data from the Canadian National Population Health Survey (NPHS), we study the relationship between …

significantly negative effect of exposure during the first trimester of gestation on employment outcomes 53 or more years after …

significantly negative effect of exposure during the first trimester of gestation on employment outcomes 53 or more years after …

, we observe interesting patterns in the skill composition, employment opportunities and wages for migrants to the …