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 …

In migration studies, immigrant health is a concern before, during, and after migration. This study uses a large late …

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

those with adverse prenatal health or high paternal BMI, an exception being that cognition is only affected by exposure at … effects of changes in the supply of high caloric nutrition on the health and cognitive ability of young adult males. Our … results indicate that exposure to these establishments during childhood and adolescence increases BMI and has negative effects …

This study estimates the causal effect of working hours on health. We deal with the endogeneity of working hours … on subjective and several objective health measures. The effects are mainly driven by women and parents of minor children …

the 19th century, black and white BMI values declined. Farmers were consistently heavier than non-farmers, and blacks in … Upper South had lower BMI values than their counterparts in other US regions. -- body mass index ; 19th century American … health ; racial disparity …

We estimate and decompose family income-related inequality in child health in the US and analyze its dynamics using the … income-related health mobility index recently introduced by Allanson et al., 2010. Data come from the 1997, 2002, and 2007 … income-related child health inequality remains stable from early childhood into adolescence. The main factor underlying …

The health status of people is a precious commodity and central to economic, socio-political, and environmental … the portrait of immigrants and natives. In this paper we are concerned with international migration and health outcomes in … insights into the Healthy Immigrant Paradox and the health assimilation of immigrants as we also elucidate selection and …

In this paper, we develop a life cycle model in which health and longevity are threatened by infectious and chronic … diseases. The model captures that the susceptibility and severity of infectious diseases depend on the accumulated health … deficits (immunosenescence) and that the life history of infections affects the accumulation of chronic health deficits …