From 2004 to 2006, a community-based health insurance (CBI) scheme was rolled out in Nouna District, Burkina Faso, with … the objective of improving access to health services and population health. We explore the random timing of the insurance … rollout generated by the stepped wedge cluster-randomized design to evaluate the welfare and health impact of the insurance …

This paper presents a survey of the empirical literature studying the relationship between health outcomes, temperature … to incorporate human health and adaptation in its framework. I begin by presenting the conceptual and methodological … issues associated with the measurement of the effect of temperature extremes on health, and the role of adaptation in …

We use administrative data on Swedish lottery players to estimate the causal impact of wealth on players' own health … and their children's health and developmental outcomes. Our estimation sample is large, virtually free of attrition, and … assigned. In adults, we find no evidence that wealth impacts mortality or health care utilization, with the possible exception …

health status as well as state, industry and occupation fixed effects, we show that poor local labor market conditions are … economic conditions pose health risks and illustrate an important contrast with studies based on aggregate data. The latter …

conditions pose health risks and illustrate an important contrast with studies based on aggregate data. …

> While there is no doubt that health is strongly correlated with education, whether schooling exerts a causal impact on … health is not yet firmly established. We exploit Dutch compulsory schooling laws in a Regression Discontinuity Design applied … to linked data from health surveys, tax files and the mortality register to estimate the causal effect of education on …