Passive smoking is a major public health issue. This paper documents the main risk factors that determine children … exposure on child health. Such information is valuable to policy-makers when deciding upon the amount of resources to direct … of children drawn from the Health Survey for England, for whom we match parental and household smoking and demographic …

is predicted to increase with ageing populations, more people living alone, and with chronic health conditions. Despite … financial stress is strongly associated with worse social health. Our results are robust to a panel analysis that accounts for …

predictors. Adding contemporaneous adulthood variables for health and socio-economic status increases the predictability of …

This paper explores the determinants of individuals' psychological and psychosocial health using recent Health Survey … Social Support scores, are negatively related to household poverty as well as acute and chronic physical health. Unemployment … psychosocial health. …

This paper estimates the long-term health effects of Vietnam-Era military service using Australia's National … conscription lotteries for identification. Our primary contribution is the quality and breadth of our health outcomes. We use … significant detrimental effects on a number of morbidity measures. Hearing and mental health appear to be particularly affected. …

to quarterly British data on chronic health conditions for those of working age over the period 2002-2016. We find strong … and robust counter-cyclical relationships for overall chronic health, and for five broad types of health conditions …. Chronic health conditions therefore increase in poor economic times. There is considerable spatial heterogeneity across local …

environment affect workers' perceived job security, and the impact of job security on measures of mental and physical health. To … movements drive changes in perceived job security, which in turn significantly and substantively affects the mental health of … workers. In contrast, we find no effects on physical health. Our results imply that the estimated welfare costs of recessions …

Economists rely heavily on self-reported measures of health status to examine the relationship between income and … health. In this paper we directly compare survey responses to a self-reported measure of health that is commonly available in … nationally-representative individual and household surveys, with objective measures of the same health condition. Our particular …