Research in the US on the social determinants of reduced physical functioning at older ages
has typically not considered physical work conditions as contributors to disparities. We …

This paper investigates the causal impact of working conditions on mental health in the UK,
combining new longitudinal data on working conditions from the European Working …

Context: The allocation of scarce health care resources requires a knowledge of disease
costs. Whereas many studies of a variety of diseases are available, few focus on job‐related …

This paper estimates the causal effect of income on health outcomes of the elderly and
investigates underlying mechanisms by exploiting an income change induced by the launch …

Using Eurobarometer data, we document large variation across European countries in
education gradients in income, self-reported health, life satisfaction, obesity, smoking and …

The latter part of the 20th century was a period characterized by a fundamental transition in
scholarship on activity and the aging process. Theory emphasizing the inevitable decline of …

The neoclassic economic rationale has taken for granted that the effect of effort on health is
negative. However, several studies in the field of occupational health and medicine claim …

This study investigates whether minimum wage increases impact worker health in the United
States. We consider self‐reported measures of general, mental, and physical health. We use …

Denne rapporten handler om sosial ulikhet i helse i Norge–omfang, utviklingstrekk, årsaker
og konsekvenser, og den politikken norske myndigheter fører og bør føre for å redusere …

Education and income are strong predictors of health and longevity. In the last 20 years,
many efforts have been made to understand if these relationships are causal and what the …