education to health, from health to education, or from factors that influence both variables. We formalize a model that …Empirical studies show that years of schooling are positively correlated with good health. The implication may go from … determines an individual's demand for knowledge and health based on the causal effects, and study the impacts on the individual …

education to health, from health to education, or from factors that influence both variables. We formalize a model that …Empirical studies show that years of schooling are positively correlated with good health. The implication may go from … determines an individual's demand for knowledge and health based on the causal effects, and study the impacts on the individual …

Understanding of the substantial disparity in health between low and high socioeconomic status (SES) groups is hampered … disparities in health by SES. In our model, lifestyle factors, working conditions, retirement, living conditions and curative care … are mechanisms through which SES, health and mortality are related. Our model predicts a widening and possibly a …

We present a theory of human capital, with its two most essential components, health capital and, what we term, skill … an important economic mechanism driving human-capital formation, socio-economic and health disparities, human …-capital based economic growth, and causal relations among the stocks of wealth, skill and health, namely whether individuals can …

Understanding of the substantial disparity in health between low and high socioeconomic status (SES) groups is hampered … disparities in health by SES. In our model, lifestyle factors, working conditions, retirement, living conditions and curative care … are mechanisms through which SES, health and mortality are related. Our model predicts a widening and possibly a …

Understanding of the substantial disparity in health between low and high socioeconomic status (SES) groups is hampered … part of the observed disparities in health by SES. In their model, lifestyle factors, working conditions, retirement …, living conditions and curative care are mechanisms through which SES, health and mortality are related. Their model predicts …

Understanding of the substantial disparity in health between socioeconomic status (SES) groups is hampered by the lack …. Motivated by the observation that medical care explains only a relatively small part of the SES-health gradient, we present a … conditions, and health investment, provide mechanisms through which SES, health, and longevity are related. As a result, the …

This paper begins the synthesis of two currently unrelated literatures: the human capital approach to health economics …

Social differentials in the survival from 12 common types of cancer were assessed by estimating a recently developed … population. The excess all-cause mortality among cancer patients compared to otherwise equal persons without a cancer diagnosis … was significantly related both to education, occupation and income. It was, on the whole, about 15% lower for men or women …