This paper characterizes the link between ambient temperatures and a broad set of mental health outcomes. We find that … health. Specifically, cold temperatures reduce negative mental health outcomes while hot temperatures increase them. Our … conditioning penetration rates, accessibility of mental health services, and other factors. The character of the results suggests …

both mental and physical health. In addition, individuals feel less financially constrained and are more optimistic about …

We provide a comprehensive picture of the health effects of social isolation using longitudinal data over 21 European … countries. We then estimate linear regressions to study the dynamic "value added" effects of SI on health and other mediator … outcomes, and find that social isolation at baseline leads to worsening health in the next waves along all the dimensions we …

We analyze whether field of study assigned at age 16 impacts mental health in adulthood. Using a regression … discontinuity design that exploits GPA cut-offs, we find that admission to the preferred study field improves mental health …, lowering both the incidence of antidepressant prescriptions and of mental health-related hospitalizations. Engineering …

Recent increases in mortality have brought life expectancy back to the forefront of the public health debate in the US … average health performance of OECD countries at their typical health expenditures. …

primarily the symptom of real declines in the health of near-elderly Americans, relative to their European peers. In particular …, we use a microsimulation approach to project what US longevity would look like, if US health trends approximated those in … Europe. We find that differences in health can explain most of the growing gap in remaining life expectancy. In addition, we …

olds, we estimate similar health gradients in income and wealth in both countries, but for 70-80 year old, we find no … benefits are largely flat and independent of past income and hence past health during the working years. Finally, we report … experienced during the prior ten year period. -- Health …