The health status of people is a precious commodity and central to economic, socio-political, and environmental … the portrait of immigrants and natives. In this paper we are concerned with international migration and health outcomes in … insights into the Healthy Immigrant Paradox and the health assimilation of immigrants as we also elucidate selection and …

Using data from the 2009 China Health and Nutrition Survey, this study investigates China's income-health gradient by … income-health gradient irrespective of whether the income measure is current or long term. Because risky behavior may … attenuate income's positive effects on health, we also analyze the association between income and such health …

explain the connection. The health behaviour of the children and the health accumulated over the life course appear as …

link. Children's health behaviour and the health accumulated over the life course appear as important channels. The …

mortality data, and contribute to two bodies of literature. First, we demonstrate a beneficial causal effect of education on … health and longevity in contrast to other twin-based studies of the US population, which show little or no effect of … education on health. Second, we present evidence that parents compensate for differences in their children's health endowments …

This paper studies how stress affects the mortality risk. Using a flexible approach and allowing for timevarying … treatment effects, I find no impact of stress on the short-run mortality risk but a substantially increase in the long-run. The … effects are especially pronounced for men. I provide evidence that this is likely caused by changes towards adverse health …

This paper uses Hierarchical Bayes Models to model and estimate spatial health effects in Germany. We combine rich …-level health dependencies. As dependent variable we use the generic, continuous, and quasi-objective SF12 health measure. We find … to 0.35 standard deviations in health. Even 20 years after German reunification, we detect a clear spatial East …

This paper uses Hierarchical Bayes Models to model and estimate spatial health effects in Germany. We combine rich …-level health dependencies. As dependent variable we use the generic, continuous, and quasi-objective SF12 health measure. We find … to 0.35 standard deviations in health. Even 20 years after German reunification, we detect a clear spatial East …