While previous studies have shown that recessions are associated with better health outcomes and behaviors, the focus … previously established counter-cyclical pattern in health and heath behaviors is held during the Great Recession. Using data from … capturing health and health behaviors, we show that the association between economic deterioration and these outcomes has …

, the urbanization rate, real per capita health expenditure (public and private), the DPT immunization rate among children …

There is a large body of work that documents a strong, positive correlation between education and measures of health …, but little is known about the mechanisms by which education might affect health. One possibility is that more educated …

We perform an econometric analysis of the effect of new drug launches on longevity, using data from the IMS Health Drug …

Medicare home health care cost and reduced Medicare office-visit cost. We also found that the mean age of drugs used by …

.S. national-level) data for the period 1982-2001. We use IMS Health data on the aggregate number of and expenditure on HIV drug …

. However, little is known about the influence of these policies on children's health and well-being. In this paper, we study …