Subjective Health Assessments and Active Labor Market Participation of Older Men: Evidence from a Semiparametric Binary Choice Model with Nonadditive Correlated Individual-Specific Effects We use panel data from the US Health and Retirement Study 1992-2002 to estimate the effect of self-assessed health limitations on active labor market participation of men around retirement age. Self-assessmen...

Accounting for the Rise of Health Spending and Longevity We estimate a stochastic life-cycle model of endogenous health spending, asset accumulation and retirement to investigate the causes behind the increase in health spending and longevity in the U.S. over the period 1965-2005. We estimate that technological change and the increase in the generosity of health insurance on their own may expla...

The Psychic Costs of Migration: Evidence from Irish Return Migrants Within the economics literature, the “psychic costs” of migration have been incorporated into theoretical models since Sjaastad (1962). However, the existence of such costs has rarely been investigated in empirical papers. In this paper, we look at the psychic costs of migration using alcohol problems as an indicator. Rather th...

The SES Health Gradient on Both Sides of the Atlantic Looking across many diseases, average health among mature men is much worse in America compared to England. Second, there exists a steep negative health gradient for men in both countries where men at the bottom of the economic hierarchy are in much worse health than those at the top. This health gradient exists whether education, income, or...

This paper examines regional differences in the effect of user fee removal in rural areas of Zambia on the use of health institutions for delivery. The analysis uses quarterly longitudinal data covering 2003q1-2008q4. When unobserved heterogeneity, spatial dependence and quantitative supply-side factors are incorporated in the Interrupted Time Series (ITS) design, user fee removal is found to i...

Height, Weight and Well-Being for Rural, Urban and Migrant Workers in China* In general, the happiness literature has paid little attention to the relationship between physical appearance and well-being. In this paper, we examine the link between weight, height and well-being for three distinct samples in China given that attractiveness effects likely vary greatly across sociocultural contexts....

Youth Depression and Future Criminal Behavior While the contemporaneous association between mental health problems and criminal behavior has been explored in the literature, the long-term consequences of such problems, depression in particular, have received much less attention. In this paper, we examine the effect of depression during adolescence on the probability of engaging in a number of c...

Napjainkra a nem fertőző, krónikus betegségek világszerte az elsőszámú halálokká léptek elő. Ám míg fejlett, civilizáltabb társadalmakban probléma visszaszorulóban van, azalatt civilizációs kevésbé fejlett társadalmak felé vették irányt, elterjedve ezzel egész világon. A fő forrásai között szerepel helytelen táplálkozás, megfelelő étrend összeállításával mérsékelhető terjedése és súlyossága. ci...

Based on the institutional perspective, this article examines whether pressures in home and host countries affect multinational enterprise (MNE) subsidiaries’ corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices distance between moderates these relationships. We collect data from 185 Chinese MNEs’ 349 foreign subsidiaries operating 27 conduct a cross-classified multilevel model analysis of data. The...

This paper examines the influence of social norms on obesity. We develop a concept of social norm related to social distortion in weight perception developed through shared experiences in a common social environment with a high prevalence of obesity. The theoretical model show that when obesity is common it less likely to be recognized as a problem by mitigating individual’s health concerns. We...