education and health. We concentrate on ergonomic, environmental, psychical, social and time demands. Merging the German … dataset to analyze the mediating role of occupational demands in the relationship between education and health status on the … one hand and education and health behavior (BMI and smoking) on the other. We base our analyses on the entire working …

supply, but very little is known about how the minimum wage affects health, including children's health. We address this … health. Using data on the entire universe of births in the US over 25 years, we find that an increase in the minimum wage is …, which are some channels through which minimum wage can affect infant health. Labor market policies that enhance wages can …

health behavior. For that purpose we set up a physiologically founded model of health deficit accumulation and calibrate it … using recent insights from gerontology. From fitting life cycle health expenditure and life expectancy we obtain estimates …

; maximum humidity; precipitation; precipitation standard deviation; malaria cases; health facilities; hospital beds; health … workers; per capita health expenditure and gross domestic product per capita. The Fixed Effects Model was found to be … preferable. Health facilities, per capita GDP, the interaction of temperature and precipitation, the interaction of precipitation …

Despite plausible mechanisms, little research has evaluated potential changes in health behaviors as a result of the … health behaviors for pregnant women, which is a group of particular interest given evidence of the importance of prenatal … health to later life outcomes. We exploit exogenous variation from the Medicaid income eligibility expansions for pregnant …

This study throws light on the potential non-linear effects of education on individual health and health … affects individual health-related behavior. By contrast, IVs estimates based on a compulsory schooling age reform show mostly … non-significant effects. Our results point to a complex link between education and health. On the one hand, higher …