Previous studies find a strong and positive empirical connection between health status and the share of risky assets … health by altering their portfolio allocation, or does it simply reflect unobserved differences across households? We find … that the link between health and risky assets depends crucially on the econometric treatment of unobserved heterogeneity …

In Sweden, health, measured as self-assessed health, is distributed fairly evenly in an international perspective. The … household income per equivalent adult. The results show that even if there are no inequalities in health in Sweden, there are …

mitigation. Recently this debate has included the issue of <p> ancillary benefits. These benefits consist mainly of health … improvements. Although it is <p> generally acknowledged that air pollution affects respiratory health, and that valuations <p> of … pollutants affecting <p> human health and labour productivity these effects should be taken into consideration. <p> The analysis …

This paper analysis the impact of better water quality on health improvements using two stated preference methods … rather small willingness to pay for reducing health risks owing to water quality. <p> …

This paper analyzes the welfare effects of improved health status through increased water quality using a choice … estimating individual level willingness to pay(WTP). We find a significant WTP for improved health status, both for short-run and … long-run health effects. However, the estimated WTP is fairly low compared with the costs of a program that would achieve …

-2000, and we merge these with historical data on macro-economic outcomes and health indicators. We estimate duration models and …

the workplace due to sickness. To be able to conclude that income causally affects health it is important to control for …

health and retirement estimated on the Norwegian labour market data. The paper focuses on the two main elements of the reform … total social welfare, individuals in good health who retire early experience a negative change in their discounted utility …