investigates the effect of a health intervention on physical activity, using a temporally randomized offer of malaria testing and …

Childhood obesity has adverse health and productivity consequences and poses negative externalities to health services … hypothetical investment scenarios. We show that perceived returns are predictive of health investments and outcomes, and that less … educated parents perceive the returns to health investments to be lower, thus contributing to the socioeconomic inequality in …

This study provides causal effect of education on health behaviors in Turkey which is a middle income developing … country. Health Survey of the Turkish Statistical Institute for the years 2008, 2010 and 2012 are used. The health behaviors … considered are smoking, alcohol consumption, fruit and vegetable consumption, exercising and one health outcome namely, the body …

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 …

We use the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) and the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) to study the … relationship between marriage and health for working-age (20 to 64) individuals. In both data sets married agents are healthier … than unmarried ones, and the health gap between married and unmarried agents widens by age. After controlling for …

This paper reconsiders the long-run economic relationship between health care expenditure and income using a panel of … cointegration properties between health care spending and income. This is done in a panel data context controlling for both cross … dependence. Heterogeneity is handled through fixed effects in a panel homogeneous model and through a panel heterogeneous model …

Numerous studies have evaluated the effect of nutrition early in life on health much later in life by comparing …. In this paper we estimate this average causal effect on health outcomes later in life, by applying instrumental variable …

This paper analyzes the relationship between education and health outcomes using a natural experiment in Turkey. The … attainment to investigate the impact of education on body mass index, obesity, smoking behavior, and self-rated health, as well … statistically significant favorable effect of education on health outcomes and behavior. However, this relationship becomes …

We use newly collected individual-level hunger recall information from the China Family Panel Survey to estimate the … causal effect of undernourishment on later-life health. We develop a Two-Sample Instrumental Variable (TSIV) estimator that …'s effect on later life health found in previous studies. We also find that exposure to famine-induced hunger early in life …

primarily the symptom of real declines in the health of near-elderly Americans, relative to their European peers. In particular …, we use a microsimulation approach to project what US longevity would look like, if US health trends approximated those in … Europe. We find that differences in health can explain most of the growing gap in remaining life expectancy. In addition, we …