Abstract: We examine the impact of new medical information on drug safety on preventive health behavior. We exploit the … release of the findings of the Women's Health Initiative Study (WHIS) -the largest randomized controlled trial of women …'s health- which demonstrated in 2002 that long-term Hormone Replacement Therapy increases the risk of heart attacks, stroke …

literature that debates the importance of socioeconomic status (SES) in determining health and survival. They augment a growing … health, indeed, enough to reverse the SES gradient that is commonly observed. …

There are many pathways explaining the relationship between socioeconomic status and health; one possibility is that … some normally unobservable characteristic causes people to invest both in their financial well-being and their health. Here … savings decisions and decisions in the health domain. Choices in both domains have long-term consequences and therefore …

biennial waves from the Health and Retirement Study.We find the dynamics of the presence of pain is central to understanding …

A positive relationship between socio-economic status (SES) and health, the so-called \health-wealth gradient", is … repeatedly found in most industrialized countries with similar levels of health care technology and economic welfare. This study … analyzes causality from health to wealth (health causation) and from wealth to health (wealth or social causation) for elderly …

effectiveness and prevalence are important if the government wants to maximize the health gain that it gets from its health budget …