This paper examines the effect of a decline in health on the savings and portfolio choice of young, working individuals … health, controlling for variables such as income, age, and out-of-pocket medical expenses. Unlike many previous papers, which … dismiss health and portfolio choice associations among retired individuals on the basis of unobserved heterogeneity, we find …

affect workers' sleep and, consequently, their health. …

affect workers' sleep and, consequently, their health. …

Using five waves from the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), we investigate the association between maternal …

Using five waves from the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), we investigate the association between maternal …

access to paid sick leave. Low-income employees, service sector employees, and those in poor health have the lowest coverage …

Does working time causally affect workers' health? We study this question in the context of a French reform which … exogenous to workers' health. Difference-in-differences and lagged dependent variable regressions reveal a negative effect of … working hours on self-reported health and positive effects on smoking and body mass index, though the latter is imprecisely …

company personnel piece-rate payment records, and find a positive correlation. Second, we estimate the impact of a health …

The paper examines an effect of the return to human capital on health behavior. An approach is assumed in the paper … which implies that health is an investment good complimentary for human capital. The latter is treated as actual skills and … knowledge yielding a bonus above earnings. We propose a model relating health demand to human capital. According to the model …

investigates the effect of a health intervention on physical activity, using a temporally randomized offer of malaria testing and …