In this paper, I propose a life cycle model of occupational choice with endogenous health behavior, aging, and … longevity. Health-demanding work leads to a faster accumulation of health deficits and is remunerated with a hazard markup on … wages. Health deficit accumulation is also influenced by unhealthy consumption and health care expenditure. I calibrate the …

With periodic recessions and the rising costs of health care, it is important to know how labor market participation … and insecurity affects health outcomes. Yet, this line of research faces a number of methodological challenges which this … market shocks during severe recessions affect men's body mass index (BMI) and health-related behaviors. We use growth curve …

An open question in the literature is whether families compensate or reinforce the impact of child health shocks … negative early health shocks at ages 0-3, the other twin sibling who did suffer negative health shocks received RMB 305 more in … terms of health investments, but received RMB 182 less in terms of educational investments in the 12 months prior to the …

An open question in the literature is whether families compensate or reinforce the impact of child health shocks … negative early health shocks at ages 0-3, the other twin sibling who did suffer negative health shocks received RMB 305 more in … terms of health investments, but received RMB 182 less in terms of educational investments in the 12 months prior to the …

Although the impact of education on health is important for economic policy in developing countries, the overwhelming … majority of research to identify the health returns to education has been done using data from developed countries. We use data … from three waves of a nationally-representative health survey, conducted between 2008 and 2012 in Turkey, and exploit an …

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

different health related choices, to estimate its effect on health choices and to estimate the effect of self-regulation on … health-demographic gradients. The theory and empirical approach to self-regulation employed in this paper relies on a broad … set of proxy variables allows for the study of how self-regulation is correlated across different health choices. The …

We explore economic model of health behaviors. While the standard economic model of health as an investment is …. Most prominently, the correlation of different health behaviors across people is virtually zero, suggest that standard …

Although the impact of education on health is important for economic policy in developing countries, the overwhelming … majority of research to identify the health returns to education has been done using data from developed countries. We use data … from three waves of a nationally-representative health survey, conducted between 2008 and 2012 in Turkey, and exploit an …