Depression, a common and serious illness that is more prevalent among the poor, may limit the demand for health … novel health product, hand sanitizer, in India. We cross-randomize depression treatment (pharmacotherapy) and free … well as product use. Depression treatment improves mental health and increases willingness to pay by 5 percent, implying …

The study examines the socio-economic determinants of physical health among populations experiencing food insecurity … by an economic recession are associated with deteriorated physical health of food-insecure people. Moreover, the study … found that physical health deteriorations among food-insecure people are associated with older age, female gender …

fuel poverty and a set of well-being outcomes: life-satisfaction, self-reported health measures and more objectively … fuel poverty and our well-being outcomes. Employing combined fuel deprivation indicators, which takes into account the … associations with life satisfaction and fibrinogen, one of our biological health measures. The presence of these strong …

. Overcoming these constraints will require a careful balance between data privacy and public health, and rigorous human …

its negative health impacts in impoverished rural China using individual fixed effect models. Both the linear regression … poor, and bear grave consequences of malnutrition and worse health status as a result of unhygienic and frequent donations …. Donating plasma is associated with a .83 standard deviation (SD) decline in self-rated health, a .54 SD lower self-rated health …

through which depression may perpetuate poverty. …

This paper studies how wealth and health inequalities have interacted with the Covid-19 epidemic in a way that has … papers and their theoretical and empirical results. Recovery and contamination rates are functions of an individual's health …

This paper contributes to the economics of AI by exploring three topics neglected by economists: (i) the notion of a … in a Dark Forest universe; and (iii) the relevance of economics' Mythical Agent (homo economicus) for the design of value …-aligned AI-systems. From the perspective of expected utility maximization, which both the fields of AI and economics share, these …