incorporates mental and physical health. Correlated mental and physical health production functions are simultaneously estimated …, including the endogenous decisions to seek psychotherapy and smoke cigarettes as health accumulation factors. The model is … indicate that mental health has a stronger impact on labor supply than physical health. At the same time, estimates show that …

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 …

effects of public health coverage and maternal employment on children's health outcomes among the single-mother families. The … estimation strategy accounts for the potential endogeneity of a mother's employment status and choice of health insurance … coverage for her children. Results suggest that the effectiveness gap between the publicly provided health insurance and …

We test whether work in childhood impacts on health. We focus on agricultural work, the dominant form of child work … level surveys. We use three indicators of health: body mass index; reported illness; and, height growth. There is clear … evidence of a healthy worker selection effect. We find little evidence of a contemporaneous impact of child work on health but …

countries and whether and how the policies affect women's labor market outcomes, their own and children's health, and child …

' labour force participation, cognitive ability, and health in a simple theoretical model, and estimates the effects of … in countries with few formal care alternatives. Furthermore, caregivers in all countries suffer from worse mental health … when caregiving is prompted by poor parental health. The results for the effects of caregiving on physical health and …

This paper studies the extent to which sleep duration causally affects health, cognitive and noncognitive development … sleeping longer improves selected general developmental, behavioural and health outcomes in children and adolescents. By …

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