We analyze data on the height and weight of mothers and newborn babies between 1980 and 2005 in St. Petersburg, Russia. We find that women's living standards, as measured by their height, improved steadily from the end of World War II through those born in 1972, hence reached adulthood in 1990....

Mit dem Wandel der Produktionsstrukturen nimmt der Dienstleistungsanteil der Produktion zu und führt zu einer Vermehrung von Überwachungs-, Kontroll-, Regelungs-, und Büroarbeit. Das Sehen in der Arbeit bekommt ein höheres Interesse. Diese Untersuchung beschäftigt sich mit dem der...

We show that the choice of the welfare measure has a substantial impact on the degree of welfare-related health inequality. Combining various income and wealth measures with different health measures, we calculate 80 health concentration indices. The influence of the welfare measure is more...

The formation of human capital is important for a society's welfare and economic success. Recent literature shows that child health can provide an important explanation for disparities in children's human capital development across different socio-economic groups. While this literature focuses...

The issue of whether employees who work more hours than they want to suffer adverse health consequences is important not only at the individual level but also for governmental formation of work time policy. Our study investigates this question by analyzing the impact of the discrepancy between...

Die Verbindungen zwischen Gesundheit und Klimawandel sind vielfältig. Das Discussion Paper gibt einen Überblick über die Wirkungszusammenhänge zwischen Klimaveränderungen und dem Gesundheitssektor und diskutiert negative und positive Rückwirkungen auf verschiedene Branchen. Es kann...

There is a concern that ordered responses on health questions may differ across populations or even across subgroups of a population. This reporting heterogeneity may invalidate group comparisons and measures of health inequality. This paper proposes a test for differential reporting in ordered...

This paper studies the design of the optimal non linear taxation in an economy where longevity varies across agents, and depends on three factors: longevity genes, health investment and farsightedness. Provided earnings, farsightedness and genes are correlated, governmental intervention can be...

The impact of global climate change on health is not well understood. Besides the direct channel of increasing temperatures, there is a potentially more harmful one: through an increase in extreme weather incidents. We offer the first evidence on the effect of natural disasters on pregnancy...