Background: Nutrition in utero and infancy may causally affect health and mortality at old ages. Until now, very few … studies have demonstrated long-run effects on survival of early life nutrition, mainly because of data limitations and … individual characteristics and additional (early life) determinants of mortality. Results: Men exposed to severe famine during …

Lebensumstände in Österreichs Städten. Dabei umfasst sie folgende Bereiche: a) Ausbildung und Erziehung, b) Gesundheit, c) Wohnen, d …. Sie bieten hochwertige Jobs und wichtige Leistungen der Daseinsvorsorge in den Bereichen Bildung, Gesundheit, Wohnen und …-Vergleich einen sehr hohen Lebensstandard und ein hohes Niveau an Lebensqualität. Ihre Kosten für Wasser, Energie und insbesondere …

are mechanisms through which SES, health and mortality are related. Our model predicts a widening and possibly a …Understanding of the substantial disparity in health between low and high socioeconomic status (SES) groups is hampered … disparities in health by SES. In our model, lifestyle factors, working conditions, retirement, living conditions and curative care …

Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we investigated the role of childbearing history in later life health … and mortality, paying particular attention to possible differences by sex and region. Higher parity is associated with … better self-rated health in Western German mothers and fathers aged 50+, but its relationship with Eastern German women …

Superstition is a widespread phenomenon. We empirically examine its impact on health-related behavior and health … bad outcomes, we observe substantial adaptions in health-related behavior. Our identification exploits idiosyncratic … for the period of the Ghost Months reductions in mortality, hospital admissions, and births. While the effect on mortality …

with mortality. This paper studies the effects of income on health and mortality, using only the part of income variation …A vast literature has established a strong positive association of income with health status and a negative association … causally generates good health and that this effect is of similar magnitude as when traditional estimation techniques are used …

mortality and infant health and then consider how the estimated effects vary when the analysis is conducted at differing levels …This paper considers the relationship between local economic conditions and health with a focus on different approaches … downturns are associated with improved health. Further investigation reveals that county economic conditions have an independent …

The policies for better health, poverty reduction, and less inequality, throughout the world, require thorough … understanding of both the processes and causal paths that underlie the intricate relationship between health and wealth (income …). This is deemed difficult, contingent, and only partially understood. The adage 'health is wealth' is still, primarily, an …

We examine the long-run relationship between fertility, mortality, and income using panel cointegration techniques and … the available data for the last century. Our main result is that mortality changes and growth of income per capita account … for a major part of the fertility change characterizing the demographic transition. The change of mortality alone, however …