-term health status as measured by body height, children who lose their same-sex parent before teenage years are hit hardest …

Using a panel dataset of 320 Indonesian districts we examine the impact of district budgets on public health spending …, utilization patters in the public and private sector, and private health spending in the four years after decentralization. We … to determine causal patterns. We find that the elasticity of public health spending with respect to district budgets is …

What does the around-the-clock economic activity mean for workers’ health? Despite the fact that non-standard work … health and the existing evidence is ambiguous. In this paper I examine the associations between non-standard job schedules … and workers’ physical and mental health outcomes using longitudinal data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in …

the effect of reducing the tax base for funding public pensions and health care, while simultaneously reducing the …This paper argues against the policy position that begins with a doomsday scenario of publicly provided health … tax burdens on female labour supply, by means testing the support on family income, or selectively on the second income …

This paper uses the 2002 NATSISS data to examine the linkages between employment and health status. Two measures of … health status are used—self-assessed health and the presence of a long-term disability. Employment is modelled to exclude and … self-assessed health status and long-term disabilities have significant impacts on a person’s likelihood of being in …

offs between infant health and development and full time maternal employment in the early months of life. Time is an …

This paper studies the effects of immigration on health. We merge information on individual characteristics from the … component of the data to analyse how immigration affects the health of both immigrants and natives over time. Upon their arrival …, immigrants are found to be healthier than the natives (healthy immigrant effect), but their health deteriorates over time spent …