adopt new negative health behaviors, specifically cigarette smoking, harmful and hazardous alcohol consumption, or marijuana … consumption. We find that, net of controls and the other two recessionary hardships, unemployment experience was associated with …

physical activity, and amount of cigarette smoking and alcohol consumption. Depression significantly mediated the association … depression. Health damaging behaviors like unhealthy eating, smoking, and alcohol use may be used to cope, contributing to …

attributable to a positive, linear increase in the hazard of alcohol disease-related mortality and external causes-of-death not …. However, the underlying pattern differed by cause-of-death. The cancer, circulatory, and alcohol disease-related analyses …

from the Current Population Survey and consumption data from the Consumer Expenditure Survey. This new evidence on the … poverty, examining alternative income poverty and consumption poverty, which have conceptual and empirical advantages as … measures of the well-being of the poor. We find that both income and consumption poverty are sensitive to macroeconomic …