of factors behind the health-status in 16 European countries, focusing on behavioral risk factors (smoking, alcohol …It is now common to use the individual's self-assessed-health-status (SAHS) as a measure of health. The use of SAHS is … 2011 wave of the rich Survey of Health Aging and Retirement Europe (SHARE) is used for the exploration of the full spectrum …

In 2014, as a response to the growing awareness of cigarettes having a negative effect on human health, the European … property rights can be restricted for the protection of a social right, namely human health.The TRIPS compliance of the tobacco … the trademark to less than 25% of the cigarette packaging. Can this restriction be seen as justifiable for human health …

reduction in the prevalence of smoking. The extent to which policies promote this latter trend, however, is less clear. We … therefore analyze the staggered introductions of smoking bans and the variation in cigarette taxes over more than twenty years … evidence that smoking bans are associated with lower levels of smoking. In contrast, higher cigarette prices tend to be …

This paper estimates the causal effect of perceived job insecurity - i.e. the fear of involuntary job loss - on health … potential endogeneity of job insecurity is not accounted for, the latter appears to deteriorate almost all health outcomes. When … tackling the endogeneity issue by estimating an IV model and dealing with potential weak-instrument issues, the health …