causal effect of undernourishment on later-life health. We develop a Two-Sample Instrumental Variable (TSIV) estimator that …'s effect on later life health found in previous studies. We also find that exposure to famine-induced hunger early in life … leads to worse health among females fifty years later. This effect is much larger than the reduced-form effect found in …

estimate causal effects of higher education attainment on a wide range of cohorts’ health-related outcomes at ages 33, 42 and … 50. The non-pecuniary benefits to HE attainments on health are substantial. Higher educated cohorts are more likely to … report better health, maintain a healthy weight, be non-smokers and to have a higher sense of control on drinking alcohol and …

parametric and non-parametric estimations with varying bandwidths. Overall, our findings suggest the relevance of health …

Food security and obesity represent two of the most significant public health issues. However, little is known about … relatively long-run measures of child health. Identifying this causal relationship is complicated due to endogenous selection and …

Various panel models were presented to resolve the ranking of global health care systems according to efficiency … be by regressing the health output on various explanatory variables through a combination of the fixed effects spatial … effects ; production of health ; efficiency measurement ; heterogeneity ; spatial effects ; spatial autocorrelation …

parametric and non-parametric estimations with varying bandwidths. Overall, our findings suggest the relevance of health …

Numerous studies have evaluated the effect of nutrition early in life on health much later in life by comparing …. In this paper we estimate this average causal effect on health outcomes later in life, by applying instrumental variable …

For empirical analysis and policy-oriented recommendation, the precise measurement of individual health or well …-being is essential. The problem with variables based on questionnaires such as self-assessed health is that the answer may … depend on individual reporting behaviour. Moreover, if individual's health perception varies with certain attitudes of the …