Although yet to be clearly identified as a clinical condition, there is immense concern at the health and wellbeing …

on bank earnings, the effects of interest rates can vary depending on the profit indicator used. By and large, there is …

supply, but very little is known about how the minimum wage affects health, including children's health. We address this … health. Using data on the entire universe of births in the US over 25 years, we find that an increase in the minimum wage is …, which are some channels through which minimum wage can affect infant health. Labor market policies that enhance wages can …

Recent increases in mortality have brought life expectancy back to the forefront of the public health debate in the US … average health performance of OECD countries at their typical health expenditures. …

goods and services (indirect taxes) and health outcomes, which they hypothesise arises from the impact such taxes have on … the real incomes of the poor. This paper revisits the relationship between tax types and health outcomes using the ICTD … revenue are associated with increased public health expenditure; we find some weak evidence that greater reliance on direct …

sparse information exists regarding the impact these smoking bans at the state and local levels have on the health of … children and infants. A rationale for expansion of smoke-free laws implicitly presumes that potential public health gains from … bans impact the venue of smoking, and the health of children and infants. Using models that exploit state- and county …

strong ties across generations. However, health status, arguably a more critical component of welfare, has largely been … ignored. We fill this void by providing the first estimates of the Intergenerational Health Association (IHA) that are …-sectional units. Adjusting for only age and gender, we estimate an IHA of 0.3 indicating that about one third of a parent's health …

Studies of intergenerational mobility have largely ignored health despite the central importance of health to welfare …. We present the first estimates of intergenerational health mobility in the US by using repeated measures of self …-reported health status (SRH) during adulthood from the PSID. Our main finding is that there is substantially greater health mobility …

This chapter reviews the existing empirical evidence on how social insurance affects health. Social insurance … encompasses programs primarily designed to insure against health risks, such as health insurance, sick leave insurance, accident …. Surprisingly, evidence on how changes in coverage impact beneficiaries' health is scant and inconclusive. This lack of identified …