We study the effect of permanent income innovations on health for a prime-aged population. Using information on more …-demographic factors, health outcomes and selected risk factors. We then exploit structural and arguably exogenous changes in cohort … incomes over the eighties and nineties to uncover causal effects of permanent income shocks on health. We find that such …

This paper examines the determinants of the health of children ages 6 to 19, as reported in the Child Development … overall health and psychological health of the child. Three measures of religion/religiosity of the child are employed … health and the three measures of religion/religiosity. Those children (self-report or primary caregiver report) who have …

We study the relationship between early life health and adult earnings using a unique dataset that covers almost the … entire population of Swedish males born between 1950 and 1970. The health information is obtained from medical examinations …

information on their health status at the age of 18 and later educational attainment, we investigate whether educational … attainment is related to early health status within monozygotic twin pairs. In general, we obtain no indication of this being so …. As a result, we find little evidence that early health differences between twins would bias the estimates of the returns …

of food within the household, and in the gains from the food subsidy? Third, does food spending impact on child health …

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 …

private education and health systems has raised concerns about the future of an already fragmented social contract in Latin … America. In this chapter, we examine the evolution of the use of private education and private health insurance in selected … with a substantial proportion of households opting for private schools. On the other hand, opting out from public health is …

psychological health levels of the population. This implies that socioeconomic inequalities tend to produce health inequalities. It … which play an important role on health inequalities. Economic policies can also influence the occurrence, frequency …, duration and the strength of economic cycles which in turn influence socioeconomic factors and therefore health inequalities …

strong ties across generations. However, health status, arguably a more critical component of welfare, has largely been … ignored. We fill this void by providing the first estimates of the Intergenerational Health Association (IHA) that are …-sectional units. Adjusting for only age and gender, we estimate an IHA of 0.3 indicating that about one third of a parent's health …

-Integration) and increased level of integration (Ethnosizer), good overall health (EQ-VAS) and mental health (CESD-20). It is estimated … integration, health/mental health status. For instance, translation and voice assistant applications are associated with a 4 …% increase in integration and a 0.8% increase in good overall health. Moreover, m-Integration applications aided by artificial …