forms of health on other life dynamics, with better mental health having stronger impacts on marriage and fertility outcomes …We present a dynamic life-cycle model of women's labor supply, marriage, and fertility choices that explicitly … incorporates mental and physical health. Correlated mental and physical health production functions are simultaneously estimated …

We develop a matching model on the marriage market, where individuals have preferences over the smoking status of … potential mates, and over their socioeconomic quality. Spousal smoking is bad for non-smokers, but it is neutral for smokers …, while individuals always prefer high socioeconomic quality. Furthermore, there is a gender difference in smoking prevalence …

sparse information exists regarding the impact these smoking bans at the state and local levels have on the health of … bans impact the venue of smoking, and the health of children and infants. Using models that exploit state- and county …-level changes to smoking ban legislation over time, estimates suggest that smoking bans have improved the health of both infants and …

This paper studies the effects of different income transfers on individual welfare, in both marriage and divorce … stage, determines the optimum level of the transfer within a relationship of one-sided altruism. In the second stage, the … losses derived from the marriage. We have also found that the donor of an intergenerational transfer can behave in a …

focus on the effects of antenatal parental smoking and maternal labor supply net of other maternal behavior and child … characteristics. We find that maternal smoking during pregnancy reduces birth weight and fetal growth, while paternal smoking has …, although the effects in this case are weaker. -- Birth outcomes ; smoking ; mother's work ; sibling estimators ; instrumental …

marriage is remarkable. It may be as large as the benefit from giving up smoking. -- mortality ; health ; marriage ; happiness …This paper examines an accumulating modern literature on the health benefits of relationships like marriage. Although … and disciplines, that there is persuasive longitudinal evidence for such effects. The size of the health gain from …

health and human capital measures. State laws vary widely in the treatment of child support under joint custody. While some … reduced child support. These incentives have negative effects on children's human capital development and health, with … school and child health. Parental characteristics and time use data suggest that economic incentives for joint custody may …

We use panel data from the US Health and Retirement Study 1992-2002 to estimate the effect of self-assessed health … limitations on active labor market participation of men around retirement age. Self-assessments of health and functioning … typically introduce an endogeneity bias when studying the effects of health on labor market participation. This results from …

sample. The increase in smoking, which is a significant cause of poor infant health, may partly explain why Medicaid …Despite plausible mechanisms, little research has evaluated potential changes in health behaviors as a result of the … health behaviors for pregnant women, which is a group of particular interest given evidence of the importance of prenatal …