We show that sugar-rich diet early in life has large adverse effects on the health and economic well-being of adults …

An open question in the literature is whether families compensate or reinforce the impact of child health shocks … negative early health shocks at ages 0-3, the other twin sibling who did suffer negative health shocks received RMB 305 more in … terms of health investments, but received RMB 182 less in terms of educational investments in the 12 months prior to the …

Whether and how a paternal health shock cascades across multiple generations to affect descendant health is … paternal health shock affects grandchildren's longevity in a unique setting where the ancestral stressor is the grandfather … understudied even though a link between ancestral living conditions and descendant health may constitute an important source of …

There is much debate about the effects of pharmaceutical direct to consumer advertising (DTCA) on health care use. In …

multiple dimensions of subjective well-being and objective health behaviors, laying bare gender disparities in health … behaviors, report enhanced self-perceived health, perceive higher relative income and social status, and exude greater … fact, they tend to engage in health-compromising behaviors, such as increased smoking, and exhibit higher rates of obesity …

This paper analyzes the determinants of health insurance enrollment and health expenditure in Ghana using micro data … availability of health facilities in one's own community. It is possible to analyze the determinants of health insurance enrollment … in Ghana because its public health insurance system (the National Health Insurance Scheme or NHIS) is, in theory …

about the long-term health consequences. We replicate and extend the study by Bhatta and Glantz (20192), which reports … longitudinal statistical associations between e-cigarette use and long-term respiratory disease. We are able to closely replicate … tobacco, we find no evidence that current or former e-cigarette use is associated with respiratory disease. The statistical …

We examine whether the job characteristics of physical demands and environmental conditions affect individual's health … literature that indicate that cumulative exposure to hazards and stresses harms health. To create our analytic sample, we merge … for early and lagged health measures and a set of pre-determined characteristics to address concerns that individuals self …