Using a matched insurant-general practitioner panel data set, we estimated the effect of a general health …-screening program on individuals health status and health care cost. To account for selection into treatment, we used regional … screening participation substantially increased inpatient and outpatient health care costs for up to two years after treatment …

. -- health screening ; health care costs ; sick leave ; mortality …Using a matched insurant-general practitioner panel data set, we estimated the effect of a general health …-screening program on individuals' health status and health care cost. To account for selection into treatment, we used regional …

. -- health screening ; health care costs ; sick leave ; mortality …Using a matched insurant-general practitioner panel data set, we estimated the effect of a general health …-screening program on individuals' health status and health care cost. To account for selection into treatment, we used regional …

inheritances and lottery winnings to test a theory of health behavior. We distinguish between the direct monetary cost and the … indirect health cost (value of health lost) of unhealthy consumption. The health cost increases with wealth and the degree of …. The empirical evidence presented suggests that differences in health costs may indeed partially explain behavioral …

In this paper, I propose a life cycle model of occupational choice with endogenous health behavior, aging, and … longevity. Health-demanding work leads to a faster accumulation of health deficits and is remunerated with a hazard markup on … wages. Health deficit accumulation is also influenced by unhealthy consumption and health care expenditure. I calibrate the …

literature, which focused on inefficient health behavior of the less educated, we investigate the extent to which the education … delayed through health expenditure. Individuals are heterogeneous with respect to their return to education. The proposed … theory rationalizes why individuals equipped with a higher return to education chose more education as well as a healthier …

consumption over time, own (adult) health and inputs into the production of own health, fertility, and child quality or well …-being reflected by their health and cognitive development. They are distinguished from the labor market outcomes of education in terms … these effects operate. The chapter pays a good deal of attention to the effects of education on health for a variety of …