health capital index. …

over health workers in both identifying new patients and providing them credible information, but they are rare in that … more effective than health workers in bringing in new suspects for testing, and low-cost incentives of about $US 3 per … health workers and can be a valuable tool in combating infectious disease. …

sparse information exists regarding the impact these smoking bans at the state and local levels have on the health of … children and infants. A rationale for expansion of smoke-free laws implicitly presumes that potential public health gains from … bans impact the venue of smoking, and the health of children and infants. Using models that exploit state- and county …

We re-examine the impact of environmental taxation on health and output, in the presence of labor market frictions. Our … taxation on health. We also demonstrate that rising abatement expenditures as a way of tightening the environmental policy … would be better for health than increasing environmental tax in the presence of market labor imperfections. …

malaria prevents parents to invest in child health. Building upon the seminal paper of Dowetal. (1999), we develop a simple … model of health investments under competing mortality risks, in which people allocate expenses to equalize lifetime across … all causes of death. We predict that private health investments to fight malaria as well as other diseases should increase …

This paper investigates the returns to education in terms of individuals’ health in Brazil. We use the Heckman … microdata from National Survey by Household Sample for 2003 and 2008. The health status is measured by self-assessment of … is lower for individuals in poor health; for people with 15 or more years of schooling, the rate of return is 10 …

generosity mitigates any of the previously documented negative health effects of job loss. The results show higher UI generosity … increases health insurance coverage and utilization, and leads to improved self-reported health. Moreover, these effects are … stronger during periods of high unemployment rates. Finally, I find no effects on risky behaviors nor on health conditions. …