We study the impact of language deficiency on the health production of childhood migrants to Australia. Our … skills in health production: language deficiency directly affects the efficiency of health production and indirectly affects … large negative effect of English deficiency on physical health that is robust to a range of different specifications. In the …

This paper aims to identify the causal effect of English language skills on education, health and fertility outcomes of … degrees, but do not affect child health and self-reported adult health. The impact of language on fertility outcomes is also … immigrants in England and Wales. We construct an instrument for language skills using age at arrival in the United Kingdom …

income, relative income (i.e. how individual income compares to those of peers), individual health, and relative health … contribute to these inequalities. The analysis focuses on the population aged 50 and over, using data from the ‘Survey of Health …, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe’ and the ‘Health and Retirement Study’ for the US. All countries display some socioeconomic …