information on their health status at the age of 18 and later educational attainment, we investigate whether educational … attainment is related to early health status within monozygotic twin pairs. In general, we obtain no indication of this being so …. As a result, we find little evidence that early health differences between twins would bias the estimates of the returns …

We present new evidence on the relationship between health behaviors and experimental measures of risk and time … preferences and introduce evidence that perceived control - a measure incorporated from the health psychology literature - is a … stronger and more consistent predictor of health behaviors than economic preferences. …

expectancy will be associated with more or less life years spent with ill-health. Therefore it is useful to complement forecasts … of life expectancy with forecasts of health expectancies. To forecast health expectancy an extension of the stochastic … using regular life tables, one could project transition probabilities between health states simultaneously and use multi …

Under-5 mortality (U5M) is one of the central public health issues in many developing countries like Bangladesh. The … Health Survey (BDHS), 2014 data. To assess the fitness of the model, Hosmer-Lemeshow Goodness-of-Fit test and Variance …

Empirical evidence from several countries reveals that self-rated health is a valid predictor of mortality. So far … the relationship between self-rated health and mortality for Germany. In addition the GSOEP data enable an exploration of …