Using several waves of the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), this study analyzes the effect of long work hours … on health and lifestyles in a sample of 18- to 65-year-old Chinese workers. Although working long hours does … significantly increase the probabilities of high blood pressure and poorer reported health, the effects are small. Also small are …

Using several waves of the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), this study analyzes the effect of long work hours … on health and lifestyles in a sample of 18- to 65-year-old Chinese workers. Although working long hours does … significantly increase the probabilities of high blood pressure and poorer reported health, the effects are small. Also small are …

China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), I find that body mass index (BMI) is positively associated with SES during early …

height among white men, but only marginally among white women. Similar analysis of Body Mass Index (BMI) also shows a …

Establishing a causal relationship between health and productivity is not straightforward. On one hand, as income grows …

, CABG, are more likely to improve their behavior – eating, exercise, smoking, and drinking – in a way that increases … longevity. To test our hypothesis, we use Medicare records linked to the National Health Interview Survey to study one such … behavior: smoking. We find that CABG patients are 12 percentage points more likely to quit smoking in the one-year period …

We study smoking persistence in ten countries using data from the European Community Household Panel. Such persistence … selectivity. We find that for both smoking decisions true state dependence is in general much smaller when unobserved individual …

regulations, social norms on and tolerance towards smoking, and awareness of its health risks. …We provide new cross-country evidence on smoking persistence in Europe, which can be due to both true state dependence … methods, applied to both the smoking participation and the cigarette consumption decision. We find that for both smoking …

We study smoking persistence, which can be due to both true state dependence and individual unobserved heterogeneity … selection methods, applied to both smoking participation and cigarette consumption. We find that for both smoking decisions true …