This study investigates the effects of maternal education on child's health and health behavior. We draw on a rich … effects on health behavior for adolescent daughters, but neither for adolescent sons nor for the health status of newborns. We …'s health behavior, assortative mating, household income, and child¿s schooling track as possible channels of the estimated …

Recent work has found that retirement may lead to improvements in health, although the literature has not yet reached a … differences between studies. The first goal of this paper is to estimate the causal impact of retirement on self-reported health … retirement ages, this paper then estimates how retirement causally affects health and health-related behaviors. We find, in all …

of health shocks on employment and economic wellbeing of older workers. A health shock trebles the probability of leaving … the labor force and almost doubles the unemployment risk. The financial effects of health shocks are small on average and … those individuals with the highest remaining earnings potential are least affected by the health shock. Welfare state …

This is the first study investigating the causal effect of maternal education on child's health and schooling outcomes … significant effects on schooling outcomes for both sexes. And, we find substantial effects on health behaviour for adolescent …

economic good or bad, and hence serves as a prime example of irrational behavior reducing individual health and happiness …. Contrary to previous research, we find no health impact when TV consumption increases. For life satisfaction, we even find …

1984-91, age, health, and prior wages were much stronger predictors of the transition into disability retirement than were …

of health shocks on employment and economic well-being of older workers. A health shock trebles the probability of … leaving the labor force and almost doubles the unemployment risk. The financial effects of health shocks are small on average … and those individuals with the highest remaining earnings potential are least affected by the health shock. Welfare state …

of health shocks on employment and economic well-being of older workers. A health shock trebles the probability of … leaving the labor force and almost doubles the unemployment risk. The financial effects of health shocks are small on average … and those individuals with the highest remaining earnings potential are least affected by the health shock. Welfare state …

We estimate average causal effects of early-life hunger on late-life health by applying instrumental variable …