Are there negative health effects from losing the job? We analyze the causal effect of job displacement on diabetes … respect to health we match them to comparable workers not being displaced. On average we do not find signs for a significant …

We examine how parental health shocks affect children's non-cognitive skills. Based on a German mother-and-child data … base, we draw on significant changes in selfreported parental health as an exogenous source of health variation to identify … effects on outcomes for children at ages of three and six years. At the age of six, we observe that maternal health shocks in …

health care costs and improved care, according to this Health Affairs article by Mathematica senior fellow James Reschovsky … outweigh the costs. This study, which will also appear in the April 2015 issue of Health Affairs, was supported by the …

We use administrative data on Swedish lottery players to estimate the causal impact of wealth on players' own health … and their children's health and developmental outcomes. Our estimation sample is large, virtually free of attrition, and … assigned. In adults, we find no evidence that wealth impacts mortality or health care utilization, with the possible exception …

The lack of a reliably safe food supply in developing countries imposes major costs on both public health and market …

We test the causal role of social capital, as measured by self-reported trust, in determining access to basic health … facilities in Sub-Saharan Africa. To skirt reverse-causality problems between social capital and basic health, we rely on … robustness check, we also use a different database regarding a different health issue, namely access to clean water. We find that …

We consider the covariance structure of health. Agents report their health status on the basis of a latent health stock … account for 5% to 10% of the variation in health. At age 60, this percentage rise to between 60% and 80%. We document a …

India is ranked fairly high amongst the countries in terms of out of pocket expenditure by its citizens on health and … National Rural Health Mission (NHRM) too failed to bring about any significant improvement in health indicators. This paper …