on the gender-specific health outcome of respondents aged 60+ at follow-up over a period of 13 years (for western Germany … analysed self-rated general health as well as the self-reported absence and prevalence of specific diseases which are directly …-up in order to control for selection effects to the health outcome. The analysis was separated by sex to account for gender …

The public health care systems in the Nordic countries provide high quality care almost free of charge to all citizens …. However, social inequalities in health persist. Previous research has, for example, documented substantial educational …

While the health risks associated with smoking are well known, the impact on income distributions is not. This paper …

We examine how parental health shocks affect children's non-cognitive skills. Based on a German mother-and-child data … base, we draw on significant changes in self-reported parental health as an exogenous source of health variation to … identify effects on outcomes for children at ages of three and six years. At the age of six, we observe that maternal health …

demographics, human capital and health status. While parsimonious models suggest that height is protective against depression, the … addition of controls, particularly related to health, suggests the reverse effect: tall people are predicted to have slightly … health and human capital. …

This paper looks at the links between health and socio-economic status. It is generally assumed by non-economists that … it is low SES that causes ill health, but this paper asks whether the causation might also work the other way. Even if … the direction of causation is that SES mainly affects health, what dimensions of SES actually matter — the financial …

sophisticated consumers of advertising and use it to make more health-promoting decisions. …

This paper contributes to the small but growing literature evaluating the health effects of the Earned Income Tax … federal EITC expansion on several outcomes related to mental health and subjective well-being. The identification strategy … suggest that the 1990 EITC reform generated sizeable health benefits for low-skilled mothers. Such women experienced lower …

The objective of this paper is to assess the relationship between the health and the income from work of wage earners … and self-employed workers in Cameroon. Health status is measured by a self-assessment of an individual's health; and … a simultaneous equation model to explore the relationship between health and income, allowing for the endogeneity of …

development assistance for health for the period of 1990 till 2007. The central question is to what extent health indicators …, reflecting the health objectives stated in the Millennium Development Goals, influence such decisions. The analysis reveals that … health indicators are important determinants of the selection and allocation process for health assistance but to a different …