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

collapses and movements in variables such as health and well-being. Using nationally-representative samples of older people … this massive fall in wealth, measures of health and well-being remained broadly unchanged. However, expectations about … recessions do not have widespread negative effects on health and well-being. …

This paper reviews the literature on the impact of work on health. We consider work along two dimensions: (i) the … employment or not, independent of the number of hours worked. We show that most of the evidence on the negative health impact of … amount of work they provide. In essence, what is detrimental to health is not so much work per se as much as the gap which …

the effects of air quality on children's health. The IV estimates show that the respiratory illness health care visit rate …. Importantly, by linking the health care data to detailed records of parental background characteristics, we show that children …