, power grids, water distribution, fixed and mobile telecommunication networks) and social (health care and waste management …

One of the most robust findings in health economics is that higher-educated individuals tend to be in better health …. This paper tests whether health disparities across education are to some extent due to differences in reporting error … across education. We test this hypothesis using data from the pooled National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES …

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 …

Analysis of an original nationwide Internet survey reveals that health-related behavior shows associations with three … are indicative of being a time-inconsistent procrastinator, and classified as sophisticated otherwise. The health …-related indicators that we examine relate to smoking, health condition, dentition status, and body habitus. We first show that a higher …

education and health. We concentrate on ergonomic, environmental, psychical, social and time demands. Merging the German … dataset to analyze the mediating role of occupational demands in the relationship between education and health status on the … one hand and education and health behavior (BMI and smoking) on the other. We base our analyses on the entire working …

supply, but very little is known about how the minimum wage affects health, including children's health. We address this … health. Using data on the entire universe of births in the US over 25 years, we find that an increase in the minimum wage is …, which are some channels through which minimum wage can affect infant health. Labor market policies that enhance wages can …

This short essay reviews Gary Becker's contributions and influence in health economics. It was originally prepared for …

health outcomes. We embed our empirical investigation in a comparative welfare state framework and differentiate between four …

Much of the literature on performance-related pay (PRP) and poor health relies on self-reported data, and the … groups of health measures using data from the UKHLS: blood pressure (n=5667), inflammation markers in blood (n=4025) and self …-reported health (n=6120). Physiological markers of health allow us to circumvent some of the issues associated with self …

latter should be differentiated to account for different individuals' heterogeneous health when they grow older. This paper … explores the relevance of this idea using the European Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) panel data. It … first quantifies the health gradient across and within each of the European countries across sociodemographic groups (i …