working hours on self-reported health and positive effects on smoking and body mass index, though the latter is imprecisely …Does working time causally affect workers' health? We study this question in the context of a French reform which … exogenous to workers' health. Difference-in-differences and lagged dependent variable regressions reveal a negative effect of …

Using several waves of the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), this study analyzes the effect of long work hours … on health and lifestyles in a sample of 18- to 65-year-old Chinese workers. Although working long hours does … significantly increase the probabilities of high blood pressure and poorer reported health, the effects are small. Also small are …

We estimate the long-run labor market and health effects of breast cancer among Austrian women. Compared to a random … sample of same-aged non-affected women, those diagnosed with breast cancer face a 22.8 percent increase in health expenses, 6 …

We estimate the effect of BMI on mental health for young adults and elderly individuals using data from the National … attainment) that may invalidate this IV. We find a large statistically significant effect of BMI on mental health for the elderly … IV estimates likely have to be interpreted as identifying a weighted average of effects of BMI on mental health mostly …

incorporates mental and physical health. Correlated mental and physical health production functions are simultaneously estimated …, including the endogenous decisions to seek psychotherapy and smoke cigarettes as health accumulation factors. The model is … indicate that mental health has a stronger impact on labor supply than physical health. At the same time, estimates show that …

-equal social norms may come at an extra cost to women's health, as they increasingly engage in risky behaviors (beyond smoking … potentially devastating health consequences, and that they do so differently for male and female teenagers. In particular, we show … smoke relative to boys, even after we control for parental, sibling, and peer smoking. Importantly, we uncover similar …

, CABG, are more likely to improve their behavior - eating, exercise, smoking, and drinking - in a way that increases … longevity. To test our hypothesis, we use Medicare records linked to the National Health Interview Survey to study one such … behavior: smoking. We find that CABG patients are 12 percentage points more likely to quit smoking in the one-year period …

Researchers have focused on the contemporaneous relationship between cigarette taxes and smoking, while the longer … effects of cigarette taxes experienced as a teenager on smoking later in life. We find that a one-dollar increase in the … cigarette tax experienced between the ages of 12 and 17 is associated with substantial reductions in smoking participation and …

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 …

BMI by about 0.21% and the probability of being classified as obese by 0.44 percentage points. Regarding smoking, we find …This paper analyzes the relationship between higher education and body weight and smoking behavior among women in …