education-health gradient by using alternative measures of child personality available in the National Child Development Study …. We show that, alternatively to the authors conclusions, personality contributes to the education-health gradient to an …

The issue of whether employees who work more hours than they want to suffer adverse health consequences is important … question by analyzing the impact of the discrepancy between actual and desired work hours on self-perceived health outcomes in …-hour mismatches (i.e., differences between actual and desired hours) have negative effects on workers´ health. In particular, we show …

, extend the empirical approach in two ways. First, we add health as an additional outcome dimension. Second, we apply a semi …

HDI calculation method nor the decomposition of the HDI into its education, standard of living and health sub-indices. …

This paper studies the impact of droughts on health outcomes and health expenditures in rural Vietnam. Given the … incidence of drought to health shocks and health-related expenditures from a multiple-wave panel of rural Vietnamese households …. Overall, the results suggest that individuals affected by drought display a deterioration of health conditions and have …