-collar employment predicts a substantial increase in the probability of transitioning from very good into bad self-assessed health …, relative to white-collar employment, but with no evidence of occupational differences in movements from bad to very good health … occupational status is related to the health transitions of 30 to 59 year-old U.S. males. A recent history of blue …

an integrated developmental approach to child and adult health that considers the costs and benefits of interventions … over the life cycle. We suggest policies to promote child health which are currently outside the boundaries of conventional …

mental health in a sample of rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta). We analyze the health records of 231 monkeys which were … detrimental long-term effects on health which are not compensated by a normal social environment later in life …

. The tentative conclusion is that economic crises affect mortality rates (and presumably other measures of health) in the … same way as less severe downturns: namely, they lead to improvements in physical health. The effects of severe national …

This paper examines the long-term impacts on health and healthy behaviors of two of the oldest and most widely cited U … early life interventions for promoting health …

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 …

This study examines the relationship between economic conditions and health. Fixed-effect models are estimated using … state level data for the 1972-1991 time period. Health is proxied by total and age- specific mortality rates, as well as by … older individuals. The predicted relationship between personal incomes and health is quite weak and is sensitive to the …

This study uses microdata from the 1972-1981 National Health Interview Surveys to examine how health status and medical … countercyclical variation in physical health that is especially pronounced for individuals of prime-working age, employed persons, and … males. The negative health effects of economic expansions accumulate over several years, are larger for acute than chronic …

Although health is conventionally believed to deteriorate during macroeconomic downturns, the empirical evidence … physical health improves when the economy temporarily weakens. This partially reflects reductions in external sources of death …, such as traffic fatalities and other accidents, but changes in lifestyles and health behaviors are also likely to play a …

in mental health during economic downturns are increasingly associated with the use of prescribed or illicitly obtained …