supply. Chapter 2 on the other hand investigates the impact of grandchild care on grandparent health. Chapter 3 analyses the …

Health plays an important role in the labor market. Human capital accumulation, occupational choice, hours, wages …, turnover, and retirement are all both causes and consequences of health. Better health leads to higher productivity, and … healthy individuals can spend more time on the labor market. Yet, at the same time, health itself is also a function of past …

) 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 …