related to health system reform and only-child status. Data are drawn from four waves of the China Health and Nutrition Survey …

In 2004, a landmark study showed that an inexpensive medication to treat parasitic worms could improve health and …

-documented relationship between health and financial well-being, especially as people age. The contributors explore this issue from a variety … trends in health measurement, including the use of alternative measurement indices. Later contributions explore, among other … topics, alternate determinants of health, including retirement, marital status, and cohabitation with family, and the …

This paper studies empirically the consequences of retirement on health. We make use of a targeted retirement offer to … was 60 years of age. Estimating the effect of the offer on individuals' health within the age range 56-70, we find support … government health care expenditures. …