curves for health products in Kenya, Guatemala, India, and Uganda and test whether (1) information about health risk, (2 …Household investment in preventative health products is low in developing countries even though benefits from these …

pandemic influenced health outcomes. We first document large differences in content between the two most popular cable news …

This paper considers the role of survey design and question phrasing in evaluating the subjective health assessment … responses using the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) dataset. A unique feature of this dataset is that … respondents were twice asked during the survey to evaluate their health on a five-point scale, using two different sets of …

In many health domains, we are concerned that observed links - for example, between “healthy” behaviors and good … vary over time. When a particular health behavior becomes more recommended, the take-up of the behavior may be larger among … people with other positive health behaviors. Such changes in selection would make it even more difficult to learn about …

market outcomes, consumer behavior, and population health during the first phase of the epidemic. Second, we sketch a simple …

over time, own (adult) health and inputs into the production of own health, fertility, and child quality or well …-being reflected by their health and cognitive development. I pay a good deal of attention to the effects of education on health … because they are the two most important sources of human capital: knowledge capital and health capital. There is a large …

We examine the effect of direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA) of drug treatment on an important health habit, physical … healthy lifestyles. Using the National Health Insurance Survey (NHIS) and MSA-level DTCA data, we find that the DTCA related …-run, but also have long-run impacts on people's health by affecting their daily routines …

We estimate production functions for cognition and health for children aged 1-12 in India, based on the Young Lives … Survey. India has over 70 million children aged 0-5 who are at risk of developmental deficits. The inputs into the production … functions include parental background, prior child cognition and health, and child investments, which are taken as endogenous …