their decisions which suggests that they are easier to persuade. Therefore, in markets where persuasion is important, public …

Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary …, and empirical evidence on, the economics of risky health behaviors. It describes traditional economic approaches … increase social welfare. The chapter summarizes the literature on the consequences of risky health behaviors for economic …

We investigate the impact of increases in wheat flour prices on household food security using unique nationally … distributions of several food security measures. UQR estimates reveal that the negative marginal effect of a price increase on food … consumption is two and a half times larger for households that can afford to cut the value of food consumption (75th quantile …

linkages between conflict, food insecurity, and food price shocks in Afghanistan. Spatial mappings of the raw data reveal large … variations in levels of food insecurity and conflict across the country; surprisingly, food insecurity is not higher in conflict … effects on household food security – measured by calorie intake and the real value of food consumed – based on the level of …

the effects of air quality on children's health. The IV estimates show that the respiratory illness health care visit rate …. Importantly, by linking the health care data to detailed records of parental background characteristics, we show that children …

Many developing countries have recently increased health insurance coverage at a large scale. While it is commonly … believed that this has positive effects, to date, it is not well understood through which channels health insurance coverage …. There are two main reasons for this. First, we lack detailed data on health care utilization and health outcomes, and second …

This paper studies the effects of immigration on health. We merge information on individual characteristics from the … longitudinal component of the data to analyze how immigration affects the health of both immigrants and natives over time …. Immigrants are shown to be healthier than natives upon their arrival ("healthy immigrant effect"), but their health deteriorates …

collapses and movements in variables such as health and well-being. Using nationally-representative samples of older people … this massive fall in wealth, measures of health and well-being remained broadly unchanged. However, expectations about … recessions do not have widespread negative effects on health and well-being. …