A large body of empirical research links mental health and labour market outcomes; however, there are few studies that … effectively control for the two-way causality between work and health and the existence of unobserved individual characteristics … that might jointly determine health and labour market outcomes. In this study, we estimate the effect of mental health on …

We examine the effect of survey measurement error on the empirical relationship between child mental health and … personal and family characteristics, and between child mental health and educational progress. Our contribution is to use … progress. Maternal education and mental health, family income, and major adverse life events, are all significant in explaining …

This paper contributes to the literature on the labor market consequences of unhealthy behaviors and poor health by … series of National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys that spans 1959-2008. We calculate that the percentage of …

US, and crucially these differences are a significant contributor to black-white inequalities in health. In this paper …

for cigarettes is a derived demand. Public health efforts to reduce smoking initiation and encourage cessation may wish to …

sophisticated consumers of advertising and use it to make more health-promoting decisions. -- advertising ; weight loss ; obesity … ; deception ; information ; drugs ; health …