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

fact, they tend to engage in health-compromising behaviors, such as increased smoking, and exhibit higher rates of obesity … 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 …

We use data from the Population Assessment of Tobacco Use and Health (PATH), a longitudinal data set including self …-reported and biomarker measures of tobacco use, to examine the effects of state-level tobacco 21 (T21) laws on smoking and vaping …. T21 laws reduce self-reported cigarette smoking among 18-to-20 year olds, concentrated in males. Initial non-users who …

Newborn health is an important component in the chain of intergenerational transmission of disadvantage. This paper … contributes to the literature on the determinants of health at birth in two ways. First, we analyze the role of maternal … endowments and investments (education and smoking in pregnancy) on the probability of having a baby who is small for gestational …

county, as well as improvements in self-reported mental and physical health. We further find that this reduction in suicide …

when the global burden of mental health illness is also on the rise. We examine the causal impact of early life exposure to … warfare on long-term mental health, using novel data on the amount of bombs dropped in German cities by Allied Air Forces … significantly worse mental health later in life when they are between ages late 50s and 70s. Specifically, an increase of one …

Understanding cognitive health, its decline, and the investments that shape its age profile in later life are important … in an aging society, and yet, estimating the cognitive health production function is complicated by non-random mortality … and sample attrition. I study this dynamic selection problem in the context of education, race, and cigarette smoking …

We study the effect of community access to behavioral health (mental health and substance use disorders) treatment on …-duty assaults and county-level data on the number of treatment centers within the community that offer behavioral health treatment … access to treatment on behavioral health extend to the work environment of police officers …