In virtually every study by economists considering the determinants of an individual's health, years of schooling has stood out as an important regressor. Yet there is little agreement among economists concerning the mechanisms through which schooling affects health. This study is a first...

Three methodological problems are commonly faced by researchers investigating relationships between severity and duration of illness among patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). (1) Linear regression techniques yield biased estimates when measures of severity are continous but range between...

There has been limited research on occupation health hazards and heart disease. With the exception of the effects of noise, even less research has been conducted on occupational safety hazards, however. This study takes an initial look at interrelationships between safety hazards and heart...

Data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey I, 1971-1975 (NHANES I) were used to analyze associations among highest education level and arthritis. The dependent variables indicated whether the respondent had ever been diagnosed with any form of arthritis by a physician (10,678...

This study reports on research which looks for employee and job characteristics which correlate with absenteeism. A large cross-sectional national probability sample of workers employed for at least 20 hr per week is analyzed (n = 1308). The dependent variable is the number of self-reported...

Empirical studies indicate that a disproportionate number of blacks are found in dangerous jobs. This study replicates this finding with new fatality rates within 353 occupations. A model implicating family background and race as determinants of risk and time preferences is developed to explain...