We examine how health information affects individuals' subjective well-being using a regression discontinuity design on … health (negative). …

This paper analyses, both theoretically and empirically, women's health choices and their effects on child health for a … prenatal and postnatal determinants of child health both under certainty and uncertainty, hence introducing the possibility of … different health production functions before and after birth. An approach that is well in line with recent research in nutrition …

strain and mental health. Specifically, we consider the longitudinal relationships between payment difficulties and … subjective (self-reported anxiety) as well as objective (psychiatric drug use) measures of mental ill-health. Among previously … healthy individuals, payment difficulty experiences are strongly associated with self-reported mental ill-health. The …

Adolescent mental health is key for later well-being. Yet, causal evidence on environmental drivers of adolescent … mental health is scant. We study how an important classroom feature - the gender composition in compulsory-school - affects … mental health. We use Swedish administrative data (N=576,285) to link variation in gender composition across classrooms …

how this income dynamic affects mental health. Using data on all Swedish couples who married in 2001, I show that mental … health is positively associated with own and spousal income. However, it is negatively linked to the wife's relative income …. Crossing the threshold where the wife starts earning more increases the likelihood of a mental health diagnosis by 8-12 per …

Based on comprehensive administrative health record data from Austria, this study examines how children's mental health … responds to a severe parental health shock. To account for the endogeneity of a serious parental illness, our sample is … restricted to children who experience the health shock of a parent at some point in time and we exploit the timing of shocks in a …