outdated because it fails to reflect modern economic research on the complex effects of skilled migration on overseas …

of refugees escaping the Holocaust and verify the validity of height as a proxy for human and health capital. We further … show this episode of European migration displays well-known features of migrant self-selection: early migrants were taller … than late migrants; a large migrant stock reduces migrant selectivity; and economic barriers to migration apply. Our …

We investigate two-way causality between health and the hourly wage by employing insights from the human capital and … estimation methods in this investigation. We uncover a causal relationship between two of five measures of health and the wage in … which a reduction in health leads to an increase in the wage rate in a panel of U.S. young adults who had completed their …

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

Height is consulted as a latent indicator of early nutrition and lifetime health status. Height is observed to increase … in recent decades in populations where per capita national income has increased and public health activities have grown …. Height is determined by genetic make up and realized in part through satisfactory nutrition and health related care and …