examine a setting with large potential externality benefits: vaccination mandates for health care workers. I find that the … health care worker vaccination are particularly large. …Vaccination represents a canonical example of externalities in economics, yet there are few estimates of their …

income distribution. In this paper, we examine the effects of minimum wage increases on the health of the children of … the National Health Interview Survey from the years 2000 - 2015, we examine whether children of low-educated immigrants … immigrants. Their parents are disproportionately represented in minimum wage jobs, typically have less access to health care and …

The 21st century has been a period of rising inequality in both income and health. In this study, we find that … the largest health gains during the last several decades. Nor was higher dispersion in mortality caused entirely by the … that high-income states in 1992 were better able to enact public health strategies and adopt behaviors that, over the next …

from the Vital Statistics, it compares the health distribution (in terms of birth outcomes) of immigrant children born in …This paper provides new empirical evidence on the contribution of selective migration to the health advantage of … destination. These comparisons suggest that positive selection is partly responsible for the health advantage of recent immigrants. …

The 21st century has been a period of rising inequality in both income and health. In this study, we find that … the largest health gains during the last several decades. Nor was higher dispersion in mortality caused entirely by the … that high-income states in 1992 were better able to enact public health strategies and adopt behaviors that, over the next …

This paper investigates the relationships between social circumstances, individual behaviours, and ill-health later in …' smoking and health outcomes (lifespan and time-to-cancer) is jointly estimated, using the 1984/5 British Health and Lifestyle … behaviours as well as health outcomes. Results from this discrete latent factor model are found to be substantially different to …

To our knowledge, no study has examined the effect of immigration on the health of older natives. We use the Study of … Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) to investigate whether immigration affects depression among natives 65 …-80 years old. Immigration may increase the supply and lower the price of personal and household services, a term that refers to …

. First, we cover the role of health in driving economic growth and well-being and discuss standard frameworks for assessing … and their macroeconomic repercussions. Fourth, we discuss the health toll and economic impacts of five infectious diseases … human toll and impose a staggering economic burden, early and targeted health and economic policy interventions can often …