Transport has significant externalities including carbon emissions and air pollution. Public health research has … identified additional social gains from active travel, due to health benefits of physical exercise. Per mile, these benefits …

Medical experts have argued forcefully that using cigarettes harms health, prompting the adoption of myriad anti …

Mental health is essential for well-being and quality of life. Yet, our knowledge of the determinants of mental health … is limited. We analyze the impact of education on mental health using survey data on self-reported health of Turkish … 5 to 8 years in 1997. The results suggest that education has a favorable effect on mental health, physical health, and …

The impact of global climate change on health is not well understood. Besides the direct channel of increasing … risk of health problems later, implying even larger long run societal costs. Results confirm that exposure to extreme …

earnings. This paper examines the role of health at birth in determining academic achievement in childhood, which may provide …-stage least squares (NEC2SLS) estimator that draws on internal instruments from alternative dimensions of the multi-level panel … effects concentrated in the low birthweight range. Infant health measures appear to explain little of the well …

lockdowns with a focus on the role of health care based upon both the between and the within-variation of our panel-data. The … the state of the health care system before the crisis. Lockdowns were more efficient in countries with well …-supported health care systems. Marginal effects turn insignificant when per capita health expenditure dips below the mean. We can show …

We investigate the effects of incentivizing early prenatal care utilization on infant health by exploiting a reform … health. We further provide suggestive evidence that improved maternal health-related knowledge and behaviors during pregnancy … are plausible channels through which the reform might have affected fetal health …