Using a matched insurant-general practitioner panel data set, we estimated the effect of a general health …-screening program on individuals' health status and health care cost. To account for selection into treatment, we used regional … screening participation substantially increased inpatient and outpatient health care costs for up to two years after treatment …

changes in BP in a high-income country. We use data from clinical health assessments carried out in 2010 (baseline) and 2014 … individuals) and individuals without public health insurance coverage. However, we find no effects when we include in the analysis …

Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary …, and empirical evidence on, the economics of risky health behaviors. It describes traditional economic approaches … increase social welfare. The chapter summarizes the literature on the consequences of risky health behaviors for economic …

rationality and health insurance externalities. We also calculate the long term financial consequences of current US and European … Europe and the US. -- Obesity ; health care costs ; efficiency ; equity …

from conception to childhood - affect a child's health trajectory in the long-term. By the 21st century, a wide body of … research had emerged, incorporating the original "Fetal Origins Hypothesis" into the "Developmental Origins of Health and … Disease". Evidence from OECD countries suggests that health inequalities are strongly correlated with many dimensions of socio …

While previous studies have shown that recessions are associated with better health outcomes and behaviors, the focus … previously established counter-cyclical pattern in health and heath behaviors is held during the Great Recession. Using data from … capturing health and health behaviors, we show that the association between economic deterioration and these outcomes has …

supply, but very little is known about how the minimum wage affects health, including children's health. We address this … health. Using data on the entire universe of births in the US over 25 years, we find that an increase in the minimum wage is …, which are some channels through which minimum wage can affect infant health. Labor market policies that enhance wages can …

This short essay reviews Gary Becker's contributions and influence in health economics. It was originally prepared for …

occupational status is related to the health transitions of 30 to 59 year-old U.S. males. A recent history of blue …-collar employment predicts a substantial increase in the probability of transitioning from very good into bad self-assessed health …, relative to white-collar employment, but with no evidence of occupational differences in movements from bad to very good health …

explore potential mechanisms, including differential earnings, health insurance, and health behaviors, using data from the … Census, ACS, and NHIS. -- health ; college education …