Willingness to pay for air quality is a function of health and the costly defensive investments that contribute to … health, but there is little research assessing the empirical importance of defensive investments. The setting for this paper …

2008 and substantial recovery by 2012, to investigate the extent to which the effects of a recession on health behaviors … are lingering or short-lived and to explore trajectories in health behaviors from pre-crisis boom, to crisis, to recovery …. Health-compromising behaviors (smoking, heavy drinking, sugared soft drinks, sweets, fast food, and tanning) declined during …

We estimate the impact of family structure on investments made in children's health, using data from the 1988 National … Health Interview Survey Child Health Supplement. Controlling for household size, income and characteristics, we find that … mothers, however, their health care does not suffer relative to that reported for children who reside with their birth mothers …

This paper reexamines differences found between income gradients in American and English children's health, in results … the same time period, the income gradient in children's health increases with age by the same amount in the two countries …. In addition, we find that Currie, Shields and Wheatley Price's measures of chronic conditions from the Health Survey of …

life expectancy related to observable factors such as income, gender, and health have large effects on savings, and that …

to also impact individuals' health behaviors. Prior work has focused exclusively on recreational exercise, which … exercise improves health, if unemployment increases exercise it must also improve health. Yet a person may be laid off from a … problematic for vulnerable populations and may play a role in exacerbating the SES-health gradient during recessions. We also find …

drawn from the Health and Retirement Study for the United States. We use data on a person's subjective probability of …