investigates the effect of a health intervention on physical activity, using a temporally randomized offer of malaria testing and …

investigates the effect of a health intervention on physical activity, using a temporally randomized offer of malaria testing and …

earnings. This paper examines the role of health at birth in determining academic achievement in childhood, which may provide …-stage least squares (NEC2SLS) estimator that draws on internal instruments from alternative dimensions of the multi-level panel … effects concentrated in the low birthweight range. Infant health measures appear to explain little of the well …

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 …

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 …

health behaviors. This effect is robust to separate estimations for boys and girls and to the control variables used. The …

health behaviors, whatever their combination of personality traits. These effects are robust to separate estimations for boys …