adopt new negative health behaviors, specifically cigarette smoking, harmful and hazardous alcohol consumption, or marijuana … consumption. We find that, net of controls and the other two recessionary hardships, unemployment experience was associated with …

physical activity, and amount of cigarette smoking and alcohol consumption. Depression significantly mediated the association … depression. Health damaging behaviors like unhealthy eating, smoking, and alcohol use may be used to cope, contributing to …

attributable to a positive, linear increase in the hazard of alcohol disease-related mortality and external causes-of-death not …. However, the underlying pattern differed by cause-of-death. The cancer, circulatory, and alcohol disease-related analyses …

economic shocks, and it also explores how people may react by changing their consumption, saving and investment, work and … both short- and long-term consumption, boost work effort, and defer retirement. Younger cohorts will initially reduce their … work hours, consumption, saving, and equity exposure; later in life, they will work more, retire later, consume less …

We use data from the 2009 Internet Survey of the Health and Retirement Study to examine the consumption impact of …