several health conditions associated with environmental causes and researchers have explored many issues concerning the …'s age, health status, and characteristics of the illnesses most frequently associated with environmental causes …

A growing literature documents cyclical movements in mortality and health. We examine this pattern more closely and … health care …

We develop a pair of risk measures, health and mortality delta, for the universe of life and health insurance products …. A life-cycle model of insurance choice simplifies to replicating the optimal health and mortality delta through a … portfolio of insurance products. We estimate the model to explain the observed variation in health and mortality delta implied …

also may experience lost health insurance, and therefore higher financial barriers to health care, through age 65, when … Medicare becomes available. All of these experiences could contribute to weaker long-term health outcomes. To examine these … explore potential mechanisms for this health effect. Our results indicate that experiencing a recession in one's late 50s …

This paper uses a policy discontinuity to identify the immediate and long-term effects of public health insurance … before. We use this discontinuity in eligibility to measure the impact of public health insurance on mortality by following …

a range of health behaviors. Using longitudinal survey data that include pre- and post- reports from the same … individuals, we investigate the effects of the crisis on smoking, heavy drinking, dietary behaviors, sleep, and other health … behaviors and investigate changes in work hours, real income, wealth, and mental health as potential mediators. We also consider …