We use population-wide administrative health records from Taiwan to estimate intergenerational persistence in health …, providing the first estimates for a middle income country. We measure latent health by applying principal components analysis to …-rank slope in health between adult children and their parents is 0.22 which is broadly in line with results from other countries …

While there is a growing literature on family health spillovers, questions remain about how sibling disability status …

. The negative effect at low levels of schooling may be due to lower average health among marginal surviving children or a … greater propensity to complete secondary school on the other hand may be due to improved health among children who are farther …

educational structure of the population and of policies which address the health impediments for labor force participation. Of the … the labor market integration of people with health limitations provide a particularly promising avenue to increase labor … force participation rates and thus help to address the challenges posed by demographic aging. If the health gap in …

This paper analyses the relationship between health and socioeconomic status accounting for the role of breadth and … distributional analysis of the relationship between socioeconomic status and health. Using data from the British Household Panel …. Decomposition analysis of the contribution of components of deprivation to health suggests breadth of deprivation to dominate the …

This paper adds to the literature on the income-health gradient by exploring the association of short- and long …-term income with a wide set of self-reported health measures and objective nurse-administered and blood-based biomarkers as well …. The income-health gradients are greater in magnitude in case of long-run rather than cross- sectional income measures …

, 1995 and 1997 editions of the Spanish National Health Surveys. The estimates for several parametric models of the hazard … rate for starting and quitting suggest that i) The public health measures applied as of 1992 have had a significative …

, 1995 and 1997 editions of the Spanish National Health Surveys. The estimates for several parametric models of the hazard … rate for starting and quitting suggest that i) The public health measures applied as of 1992 have had a significative …

The objective of this study consists in quantifying in money terms the potential reduction in usage of public health … probabilistic model for visits to physicians is specified and estimated using data from the Catalonian Health Survey. Also, a model …