We examine the effects of fast-food restaurant advertising on television on the body composition of adolescents as … dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (DXA) from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey with individual level data … from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 and data on local fast-food restaurant advertising on television from …

of individuals to information. Goods advertising is competing with political information for people's attention. This …

sophisticated consumers of advertising and use it to make more health-promoting decisions. …This paper is the first to estimate the impact of exposure to deceptive advertising on consumption of the advertised … advertising is rampant and products are generally ineffective with potentially serious side effects. We control for the targeting …

sophisticated consumers of advertising and use it to make more health-promoting decisions. …This paper is the first to estimate the impact of exposure to deceptive advertising on consumption of the advertised … advertising is rampant and products are generally ineffective with potentially serious side effects. We control for the targeting …

We propose a Bayesian factor analysis model to rank the health of localities. Mortality and morbidity variables …

Using longitudinal data from the Canadian National Population Health Survey (NPHS), we study the relationship between … health and employment among older Canadians. We focus on two issues: (1) the possible endogeneity of self-reported health …, particularly ?justification bias?, and (2) the relative importance of health changes and long-term health in the decision to work …

A positive relationship between socio-economic status (SES) and health, the so-called "health-wealth gradient", is … repeatedly found in most industrialized countries with similar levels of health care technology and economic welfare. This study … analyzes causality from health to wealth (health causation) and from wealth to health (wealth or social causation) for elderly …

A vast literature has established a strong positive association of income with health status and a negative association … with mortality. This paper studies the effects of income on health and mortality, using only the part of income variation … causally generates good health and that this effect is of similar magnitude as when traditional estimation techniques are used …