decreases, and the two have different implications for human health. An alternative measure for net current biological …

When traditional measures for health and economic welfare are scarce or unreliable, height and the body mass index (BMI …

effects of changes in the supply of high caloric nutrition on the health and cognitive ability of young adult males. Our … those with adverse prenatal health or high paternal BMI, an exception being that cognition is only affected by exposure at …

Although a significant number of middle and low-income countries have expanded access to subsidized health insurance …, it still is unclear whether these insurance expansions improve children's health, This paper exploits quasi … children's health, We find that access to insurance reduces childhood obesity and exerts positive and economically significant …

mortality using an instrumental variable approach based on wind direction. Harnessing daily changes in county-level wind …

The perception of disease risks and risky health behaviors are closely associated. In this paper, we investigate the …. -- obesity ; health risk ; subjective expectations …

Using a unique dataset on health club attendance from Quebec, we look at the relationship between actual and expected … renewal. Our results are consistent with a model of health club participation where agents underestimate the severity of their …