adopt new negative health behaviors, specifically cigarette smoking, harmful and hazardous alcohol consumption, or marijuana … consumption. We find that, net of controls and the other two recessionary hardships, unemployment experience was associated with …

physical activity, and amount of cigarette smoking and alcohol consumption. Depression significantly mediated the association … depression. Health damaging behaviors like unhealthy eating, smoking, and alcohol use may be used to cope, contributing to …

attributable to a positive, linear increase in the hazard of alcohol disease-related mortality and external causes-of-death not …. However, the underlying pattern differed by cause-of-death. The cancer, circulatory, and alcohol disease-related analyses …

, can explain this disparity. In this chapter we present some estimates of the loss of consumption suffered by unemployed …

In this paper we analyse the relationship between unemployment and consumption. We study this relationship with panel … smaller consumption losses in Spanish and Italian households. We discuss this finding in the light of different market and … that credit and insurance markets are also more developed in the North than in the South, existing theories of consumption …