This paper examines the relationship between early childbearing and child mortality in Bangladesh, a country where … adolescent childbearing is of particular concern. We argue that effective use of specific health inputs could however … to use health inputs differently from all other women. After correcting for this possible selectivity bias, the adverse …

We show that individuals who are in poorer health, independently from smoking, are more likely to start smoking and to … smoke more cigarettes than those with better non-smoking health. We present evidence of selection, relying on extensive data … on morbidity and mortality. We show that health based selection into smoking has increased over the last fifty years with …

of education on health behaviors. Using the number of academic track schools in a state as an instrumental variable for … years of schooling, we investigate the causal effect of schooling on health behavior such as smoking and related outcomes …

With periodic recessions and the rising costs of health care, it is important to know how labor market participation … and insecurity affects health outcomes. Yet, this line of research faces a number of methodological challenges which this … market shocks during severe recessions affect men's body mass index (BMI) and health-related behaviors. We use growth curve …

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

An open question in the literature is whether families compensate or reinforce the impact of child health shocks … negative early health shocks at ages 0-3, the other twin sibling who did suffer negative health shocks received RMB 305 more in … terms of health investments, but received RMB 182 less in terms of educational investments in the 12 months prior to the …

We provide a framework to disentangle preferences and beliefs in health behavior and apply it to lockdown compliance in … from passing away from COVID and being caught transgressing, and largest utility from preserving their mental health. While … to others are key to health policies …

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 …

This paper exploits rich SOEP microdata to analyze state-level variation in health care utilization in Germany. Unlike … individual-level and state-level factors that may contribute to the geographic variation in health care utilization. The raw data …-level differences vanish once we control for individual-level socio-economic characteristics, the respondents' health status, their …

We investigate how, in temporary economic hardship, agents change their consumption of health services, and how this … indicate that consumption of health services critically depends on the existence of user charges versus universal coverage. The …