We investigate the role of economic incentives for health behaviour by estimating the impacts of the London Congestion … Charge, a major transportation policy which increases the cost of car use within the central London area, on travel …-related physical activity and health. Individuals living inside the charging zone are eligible for a 90% discount of the charge. Using …

economic rationales for public intervention to control obesity. We take into account equity issues as well as efficiency … rationality and health insurance externalities. We also calculate the long term financial consequences of current US and European …

This study investigates the effects of maternal education on child's health and health behavior. We draw on a rich … effects on health behavior for adolescent daughters, but neither for adolescent sons nor for the health status of newborns. We …'s health behavior, assortative mating, household income, and child¿s schooling track as possible channels of the estimated …