recreational facilities, county unemployment, crime rates, and prices of related goods. We find that income and education has a …

of adults from 132 countries. I analyze the data on life satisfaction (happiness) and on health satisfaction and look at … inconsistent relationship with happiness. National income moderates the effects of aging on self-reported health, and the decline … correlations between life and health satisfaction and health measures shows that happiness (or self-reported health) measures …

preferences and constraints. In today's health policy arena there is considerable discussion about how to improve health outcomes … human capital allocate time to physically-demanding activities that we characterize as health-producing behaviors. Our data … endowments result in different manifestations of how time is used to produce health. While more-educated individuals, e.g., sleep …

In this study, we examined the association between girls' participation in high school sports and the physical activity …, weight, body mass and body composition of adolescent females during the 1970s when girls' sports participation was … dramatically increasing as a result of Title IX. We found that increases in girls' participation in high school sports, a proxy for …

To combat childhood overweight, which has risen dramatically in the past three decades, many medical and public health … from the 1994 and 2000 School Health Policies and Programs Study and the 2001 Shape of the Nation Report.<br> <br>We find …

While the link between physical activity and health has been studied, there are several limitations that persist in …

shown that non-work physical activity has a positive impact on health while work physical activity has a negative impact on … health. Many prior studies have relied primarily on leisure-time physical activity, which typically constitutes only about 10 … gender differentials in health. About 25-46% of the differentials in non-work physical activity can be attributed to …