This paper looks at the links between health and socio-economic status. It is generally assumed by non-economists that … it is low SES that causes ill health, but this paper asks whether the causation might also work the other way. Even if … the direction of causation is that SES mainly affects health, what dimensions of SES actually matter — the financial …

Many recent writings in health policy have proposed that health be valued directly and in monetary terms using the new … may be for the evaluation process. To shed light on this issue, monetary values for a number of health problems are … consistency of health impacts within each well-being measure, hugely different monetary valuations are obtained for the same …

When measuring health inequality using ordinal data, analysts typically must choose between indices specifically based …

health. We estimate the causal effect of the 1986 Chernobyl catastrophe after 20 years by linking geographic variation in …

health. We estimate the causal effect of the 1986 Chernobyl catastrophe after 20 years by linking geographic variation in …

the psychological health of our citizens? This paper reports the first large-scale longitudinal research into envy and its … measures of SF-36 mental health and psychological well-being, four main conclusions emerge.First, the young are especially … envy today is a powerful predictor of worse SF-36 mental health and well-being in the future. A change from the lowest to …

In Germany, private health insurance covers more innovative and costly treatments than public insurance. Moreover …, privately insured individuals are treated preferentially by doctors. In this article, I use subjective health data to examine … whether these superior features of private insurance actually transfer into better health. I focus on German adolescents who …

impacts of paternal access to workplace flexibility on maternal postpartum health. We model household demand for paternal … physical postpartum health complications and improves her mental health. Our results suggest that mothers bear the burden from … documented — but also indirectly, as fathers' inability to respond to domestic shocks exacerbates the maternal health costs of …