interact in explaining a range of health outcomes. Using rich Australian survey data, we find that, while the two traits are … of control and health is reduced once we control for self-control, suggesting that self-control mediates at least part of … physical health. …

Facing unprecedented uncertainty and drastic trade-offs between public health and other forms of human well …, economics, and related fields (e.g., statistics, engineering, and health policy) to discuss approaches to modeling economy …

Micro-based and macro-based approaches have been used to assess the effects of health on economic growth. Micro …-based approaches aggregate the return on individual health from Mincerian wage regressions to derive the macroeconomic effects of … population health. Macro-based approaches estimate a generalized aggregate production function that decomposes output into its …

Social stress can cause physical and mental harm. It is therefore not surprising that public health policy makers have … coefficient coincides with increasing social stress. If the aim of public policy is to improve public health and increase social …

The goal of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was to achieve nearly universal health insurance coverage through a … Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System to examine the impacts of the ACA on health care access, risky health behaviors, and … self-assessed health after two years. We estimate difference-in-difference-in-differences models that exploit variation in …

Superstition is a widespread phenomenon. We empirically examine its impact on health-related behavior and health … bad outcomes, we observe substantial adaptions in health-related behavior. Our identification exploits idiosyncratic … is a quantum effect, the latter two effects reflect changes in the timing of events. Efficient public health policy …

malaria more salient, leading to a change in beliefs about its importance and to an increase in private health investments …. -- malaria ; bed nets ; indoor residual spray ; information ; beliefs ; behavior ; crowding out ; health ; developing countries …