In this paper, we study the smoking behavior of students aged from 18 to 25 using four cross-section data sets … the probability of smoking and the number of cigarettes smoked are positively correlated to family resources. Among … students, only wages earned and transfers received from parents increase smoking participation. However, sensitivity to income …

The panel structure of the Survey on Smoking in Canada (1994-95) and novel methods are used to estimate the impact of … particularly sensitive to these dramatic changes in cigarette prices. We also compute under realistic assumptions a price …-elasticity for the probability of smoking and a lower bound on the price-elasticity for the quantities of cigarettes smoked. …

: general health status, mental health, physical health problems, and health behaviours (drinking and smoking). Lottery winnings …. For the second, we show that lottery winnings are also associated with more smoking and social drinking. General health …We use British panel data to determine the exogenous impact of income on a number of individual health outcomes …

child income. We first build a simple theoretical model linking parental health risk, educational choice and appropriation … compiled from the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) database for 17 Sub-Sahara African (SSA) countries between the years 2003 …

This paper examines whether the subjective well-being of migrants is responsive to fluctuations in macroeconomic … control for migrants' observed and unobserved characteristics. We find strong (mild) evidence that migrants' well … demonstrate that migrants regard home countries as natural comparators and, thereby, suggest an original assessment of the …

This paper analyzes the interaction between migrants income and remittances and between remittancesand the labor supply …

How can healthcare access for Chinese migrants be improved? Migrant workers face two types of healthcare … model, and control for the non-exogeneity of health insurance. The empirical findings support the hypothesis of a return to … the hometown for migrant workers with poor health. Apart from residency permits and income, the social integration of …

and growth are endogenous. The authorities may provide two types of public services, public health and environmental … poverty trap. We examine changes in public policies: increasing public intervention on health or environmental maintenance …

We studied the effect of health events (accidents and chronic diseases) on the occupation probabilities at the … matching estimators, we found that health events have a strong impact on individual labor market histories. The workers … health events. …

reconciled with equity (in the sense that the winners of the coverage increases and the health improvements are the poorer). …