Health
The rise in the numbers of working-age individuals on invalidity benefits has led to a renewed interest in the causes and consequences of ill-health, and the interactions between population health and the labour market. This will only grow in importance as the population ages. Our current research in this area includes:
- In "Inactivity Among Prime Age Men in the UK" [Full document in Adobe PDF] CEP Discussion Paper 673, February 2005, Giulia Faggio and Stephen Nickell document the rise in inactivity among British men and its strong links to ill-health. They find that rates of incapacity benefit do influence the number son sickness and invalidity rates.
Contact Stephen Nickell, email steve.nickell@nuffield.ox.ac.uk, for further details.
- In "Maternal Smoking During Pregnancy and Early Child Outcomes" [Full document in Adobe PDF] CEP Discussion Paper 828, October 2007, Emma Tominey investigate the effects of smoking on children and how the effect differs by social class.
Contact Emma Tominey, email e.tominey@lse.ac.uk, for further details.
Recent publications in this area
- Jérôme Adda and Francesca Cornaglia "Prices. Cigarette Consumption and Smoking Intensity", American Economic Review, Vol. 96, No. 4, September 2006, pp. 1013-1028.
