Using panel data from Indonesia, this paper analyzes the linkages between child nutrition, health care, household … wealth and parental education in order to detect transmission channels between health, education, nutrition, water and … long term effect on child health and that this effect is partly reflected in reproductive behavior and partly conveyed to …

health is affected by whether they place their child in formal day care or not. Furthermore, the effects of formal child care … condition if their children attend formal care, whereas no such effect is found with regard to mothers' mental health. Overall …

Based on the Canadian National Population Health Survey we estimate the effects of individual sports and exercise on … individual labor market outcomes. The data covers the period from 1994 to 2008. It is longitudinal and rich in life-style, health …

This paper uses Hierarchical Bayes Models to model and estimate spatial health effects in Germany. We combine rich …-level health dependencies. As dependent variable we use the generic, continuous, and quasi-objective SF12 health measure. We find … to 0.35 standard deviations in health. Even 20 years after German reunification, we detect a clear spatial East …

This is the first study which provides empirical analysis of the variation in health behaviors for adult men and women … in Turkey which is a developing country. The health behaviors considered are smoking, drinking, fruit and vegetable … health behaviors. The results indicate that smoking is positively associated with education at all levels with a decreasing …