claims from Vietnam veterans, raising concerns about costs as well as health. We use the draft lottery to study the long …-term effects of Vietnam-era military service on health and work in the 2000 Census. These estimates show no significant overall …

examines the effect of credit, insurance, and poverty (defined as more than just low income). It also explains bonded child …

neglecting its potential effects on health and human capital. Several medical studies provide evidence of important associations … between sleep deprivation and health outcomes suggesting a large impact on health care systems and individual productivity … design to identify the effects of sleep on health status, weight, and cognitive abilities. Our results suggest that delaying …

Using several waves of the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), this study analyzes the effect of long work hours … on health and lifestyles in a sample of 18- to 65-year-old Chinese workers. Although working long hours does … significantly increase the probabilities of high blood pressure and poorer reported health, the effects are small. Also small are …

Ill-health is commonly believed to be detrimental for labor market outcomes. Yet, causal evidence mostly comes from … analyses of severe shocks, whereas minor variations in health are not only more common but also a better target for prevention … prior to the date of a survey interview. Weather conditions are capable of affecting peoples' health. While bad weather …

The relationship between physical activity and child health and development is well-documented, yet the extant … literature provides limited causal insight into the amount of physical activity considered optimal for improving any given health … comprehensive set of health, non-cognitive development, and academic outcomes of children and adolescents. Applying an individual …

examines the effect of credit, insurance, and poverty (defined as more than just low income). It also explains bonded child …

This paper investigates the impact of own-health,and that of others, on individual labour supply. We estimate a model … of hours of caring and hours of work using a large micro dataset of UK households. We find that own ill health has a … health has a strong negative effect on the labour supply of both men and women and a negative effect on their supply of …