Medical experts have argued forcefully that using cigarettes harms health, prompting the adoption of myriad anti-smoking … cigarette taxes is associated with an 8 percent reduction in adult smoking participation and a 6 percent reduction in mortality … policies. The association between smoking and mortality may, however, be driven by unobserved factors, making it difficult to …

distributions of health and wealth, leading to differences in the ability to mitigate future income shocks. We study consumption … health and wealth are jointly determined under income and health risk that are related to disease outbreak risk. We calibrate … in wealth and health, implying persistent increases in wealth inequality that are characterised by increases in wealth …

also demonstrate that Turks reported a substantial decrease in their health satisfaction and subjective wellbeing. In …

the host country's culture. While migrants do act as vectors of cultural diffusion and bring about cultural convergence …

. The results show that having multiple identities improves the employment outcomes of the migrants and contribute to help …

We use de-identified data from Facebook to study the social integration of Syrian migrants in Germany, a country that … received a large influx of refugees during the Syrian Civil War. We construct measures of migrants’ social integration based on … relative rate at which they befriend local Syrian migrants versus German natives (relative friending). We follow the friending …

The Healthy Immigrant Paradox found in the literature by comparing the health of immigrants to that of natives in the …-origin framework, in which we compare the health of emigrants to that of their compatriots who stay in the country of origin. Isolating … cultural effects can best gauge self-selection and host country effects on the health of emigrants with longer time abroad. We …

Medical experts have argued forcefully that using cigarettes harms health, prompting the adoption of myriad anti-smoking … cigarette taxes is associated with an 8 percent reduction in adult smoking participation and a 6 percent reduction in mortality … policies. The association between smoking and mortality may, however, be driven by unobserved factors, making it difficult to …

Are workplace smoking bans (WSBs) more than a ban on smoking? We study whether WSBs influence smoking cessation and … exert behavioural spillover effects on (i) a set of health behaviours, and (ii) on individuals not directly affected by the … bans. Drawing upon quasi-experimental evidence from Russia, which introduced a WSB (in addition to a ban on smoking in …