Medical experts have argued forcefully that using cigarettes harms health, prompting the adoption of myriad anti-smoking … policies. The association between smoking and mortality may, however, be driven by unobserved factors, making it difficult to … a teenager, which are arguably exogenous, on adult smoking participation and mortality. A one-dollar increase in teenage …

This article analyzes the effect of public policy intervention in the production of health capital on fertility …, private investment in children's health and education and human capital accumulation. I have used a growth model with … an additional factor that affects children's human capital, which is health. I analyze the overall society-wide effect of …

Economists use micro-based and macro-based approaches to assess the macroeconomic return to population health. The … the macroeconomic return to health. We reconcile the two approaches by controlling for the indirect effects of health … of health. Our results show that the macroeconomic return to health lies in the range of plausible microeconomic …

Are workplace smoking bans (WSBs) more than a ban on smoking? We study whether WSBs influence smoking cessation and … increase smoking cessation by 2.9 percentage points (pp) among men. Second, we find that quitters are less likely to use … exert behavioural spillover effects on (i) a set of health behaviours, and (ii) on individuals not directly affected by the …

In this paper we confront the role the EU traditionally plays in the domain of health with the urgent need for …

provision of a range of services that include childcare, early education, health and parenting support. Local Authorities are …

Although measures of sensitivity to inequality are important in judging the welfare effects of health-care programmes …, it is far from straightforward how to elicit them and apply them in health-care decision making. This paper provides an … overview of the literature on the measurement of inequality aversion, examines some of the features specific of the health …

The COVID-19 pandemic is producing a global health and economic crisis. The entire globe is facing the trade …-off between health and recessionary effects. This paper investigates this trade-off according to a macro-dynamic perspective. We …