Using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we investigate the impact of health on domestic migration within … the United States. We find that, for men below 60 years of age, a move from the middle to the bottom of the health … find evidence that, among older men, there is higher mobility at the top and bottom of the health distribution than there …

It is well documented that immigrants are in better health upon arrival in the United States than their American … counterparts, but that this health advantage erodes over time. We study the potential determinants of this "healthy immigrant … the National Health Interview Survey, we find that the average female and male immigrants enter the U.S. with BMIs that …

We investigate if there is a causal link between education and health knowledge using data from the 1984/85 and 1991 …/92 waves of the UK Health and Lifestyle Survey (HALS). Uniquely, the survey asks respondents what they think are the main … causes of ten common health conditions, and we compare these answers to those given by medical professionals to form an index …

Numerous theoretical reasons have been posited about why more schooling might improve health. Adult health outcomes and … schooling has causal effects on health outcomes and behaviors. Causal estimates based on schooling variation from policies and … significantly associated with numerous health outcomes and behaviors. However, with within-MZ twins control for unobserved factors …

Within the areas of literature on both population aging and health and homelessness, little attention has been given to … persons. The findings illustrate participants' experiences of positive health change since moving into a stable housing … environment and the aspects of housing they perceive to have improved their health and wellbeing. The qualitative findings also …

Social capital is a neglected determinant of health in low and middle income countries. To date, majority of evidence … syntheses on social capital and health are based upon high income countries. We conducted this systematic review to identify the … methods used to measure social capital in low and middle-income countries and to evaluate their relative strengths and …

We use genome wide data from respondents of the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) to evaluate the possibility that … common genetic influences are associated with education and three health outcomes: depression, self-rated health, and body … evidence that education (h2 = 0.33), BMI (h2 = 0.43), depression (h2 = 0.19), and self-rated health (h2 = 0.18) are all …

Adult health outcomes and health behaviors are often associated with schooling. However, such associations do not … necessarily imply that schooling has causal effects on health with the signs or magnitudes found in the cross … health and schooling. Recently several studies have used within-monozygotic (MZ) twins methods to control for unobserved …

. Using a two-sector endogenous growth model where the interactions between health, education, and the environment are taken …