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 …

This study investigates whether rights to paid parental leave improve pediatric health, as measured by birth weights … senior citizens, whose health is not expected to be affected by parental leave. More generous leave rights are found to … may be a cost-effective method of bettering child health …

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 …

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 …

occupational status is related to the health transitions of 30 to 59 year-old U.S. males. A recent history of blue …-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 …

. 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 …

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

Opioid use is one of the most substantial and long-lasting public health crises faced by the United States. This crisis … opioids and health and healthcare, and crime outcomes in the U.S. We focus on the U.S., a country particularly hard hit by the …Our findings align with the general perception that the opioid crisis has negatively impacted a range of health …