county, as well as improvements in self-reported mental and physical health. We further find that this reduction in suicide … is precisely what is predicted by the literature linking economic conditions to suicide risk …

We investigate two-way causality between health and the hourly wage by employing insights from the human capital and … compensating wage differential models, a panel formed from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997, and dynamic panel … estimation methods in this investigation. We uncover a causal relationship between two of five measures of health and the wage in …

-)cognitive abilities ; intelligence, earnings ; entrepreneur(ship) ; wage employment ; income differentials …? Our individual fixed-effects estimates of the differential returns to ability for spells in entrepreneurship versus wage … employment account for selectivity into entrepreneurial positions as determined by fixed individual characteristics. General …

spells in entrepreneurship versus wage employment, thereby accounting for selectivity into entrepreneurial positions based on … control over the profitable employment of their human capital than wage employees. -- Entrepreneurship ; self-employment …) constraints faced by entrepreneurs when optimizing the profitable employment of their education. Entrepreneurs have more personal …

-collar employment predicts a substantial increase in the probability of transitioning from very good into bad self-assessed health …, relative to white-collar employment, but with no evidence of occupational differences in movements from bad to very good health …