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

We use nine waves of BHPS data to examine interactions between spouses in terms of a behaviour with important health … repercussions: cigarette smoking. Correlation between partners’ behaviours may be due to correlated effects, as a consequence of … simple bivariate probit reveals a positive correlation between own current smoking and partner’s past smoking, which is …

An important externality of smoking is the harm it might cause to those who do not smoke. This paper examines the … impact on birth outcomes of children of female workers who are affected by smoking bans in the workplace. Analyzing a 2004 … law change in Norway that extended smoking restrictions to bars and restaurants, we find that children of female workers …

impact of smoking bans and cigarette prices on subjective well-being by analyzing data for 40 European countries and regions … anti-smoking policies on people with different propensities to smoke. We find that higher cigarette prices reduce the life … satisfaction of likely smokers. Overall, smoking bans are not related to subjective well-being, but increase the life satisfaction …

of smoking regulation on health, particularly within the workplace, is still very limited. In this paper, we use a Diff … comprehensive smoking bans on both perceived workers' health and presence of respiratory problems within workplaces. Results show … that the introduction of comprehensive smoking bans has a significant effect on workers' perceived health, particularly on …

whether debts burdens hamper people's health. Several measures of debt strain are constructed, including debt-to-income ratios …-mortgage debts and explores the role of social norm effects in the debt-health relationship. The results, based on a random effects …'s health. Furthermore, mild social norm effects are detected, according to which being less indebted than the reference group …

We use unique survey data to examine the determinants of self-assessed health of Indigenous and non …-Indigenous Australians. We explore the degree to which differences in health are due to differences in socio-economic factors, and examine … the sensitivity of our results to the inclusion of ‘objective’ health measures. Our results reveal that there is a …

based on Diagnosis Related Groups (DRGs) to assess their impact on self-assessed health status and on the use of health care …' perceived health and their access to a number of health services. Results suggest that the introduction of market incentives via … a fixed-price payment system does not lead to worst health perceptions. Instead, the reform marked a moderate decrease …

, employability and health-related well-being. Our results indicate that being unemployed has a strong negative effect on life … satisfaction and health. They also, however, highlight the fact that this effect is most prominent among individuals over the age … of 40. A second observation is that job insecurity is also associated with lower levels of life satisfaction and health …

Most research on the relationship between health and socioeconomic status (SES) controls for changing age or … well as controls for potential endogeneity in the health-SES relationship. Using data from German Socio Economic Panel, we … find that the health-SES relationship does vary across the life cycle and that endogeneity is an important influence on the …