The paper examines an effect of the return to human capital on health behavior. An approach is assumed in the paper … which implies that health is an investment good complimentary for human capital. The latter is treated as actual skills and … knowledge yielding a bonus above earnings. We propose a model relating health demand to human capital. According to the model …

Does working time causally affect workers' health? We study this question in the context of a French reform which … exogenous to workers' health. Difference-in-differences and lagged dependent variable regressions reveal a negative effect of … working hours on self-reported health and positive effects on smoking and body mass index, though the latter is imprecisely …

Using several waves of the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), this study analyzes the effect of long work hours … on health and lifestyles in a sample of 18- to 65-year-old Chinese workers. Although working long hours does … significantly increase the probabilities of high blood pressure and poorer reported health, the effects are small. Also small are …

Does working time affect workers' health? We study this question in the context of a French reform which reduced the …' health. We find that longer working hours increase smoking and decrease self-reported health, and that these impacts are …

Does working time causally affect workers' health? We study this question in the context of a French reform which … arguably exogenous to workers' health. Difference-in-differences and lagged dependent variable regressions reveal a positive … effect of working hours on smoking and a negative effect on self-reported health. Results are robust to accounting for …

Does working time causally affect workers' health? We study this question in the context of a French reform which … exogenous to workers' health. Difference-in-differences and lagged dependent variable regressions reveal a negative effect of … working hours on self-reported health and positive effects on smoking and body mass index, though the latter is imprecisely …

Using several waves of the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), this study analyzes the effect of long work hours … on health and lifestyles in a sample of 18- to 65-year-old Chinese workers. Although working long hours does … significantly increase the probabilities of high blood pressure and poorer reported health, the effects are small. Also small are …

Does working fewer hours lead to better health outcomes? This study answers this question in the context of China … changing their wages. By using China Health and Nutrition Survey data from 1991 to 2000, we compared the health outcomes of … suggests that reducing working hours is detrimental to the health statuses of Chinese state employees. This result may be …