Recent work has found that retirement may lead to improvements in health, although the literature has not yet reached a … differences between studies. The first goal of this paper is to estimate the causal impact of retirement on self-reported health …, England, and continental Europe. Using panel data and instrumental variable methods exploiting variation in statutory …

fuel spending among eligible households. We examine the causal effect of the WFP on health outcomes, including self … disease markers point to health benefits, but the estimated effects are not robustly statistically significant. …

on health outcomes, including self-reports of chest infection, measured hypertension and biomarkers of infection and … serum fibrinogen. Reductions in other disease markers point to health benefits, but the estimated effects are not robustly …

data on individuals born in these two months from the British Labour Force Survey and the Health Survey for England to … investigate the effects of education on health using being February-born as an instrument for education. The results indicate … neither an effect of education on various health related measures nor an effect on health related behaviour, e.g., smoking …

We provide a framework to disentangle preferences and beliefs in health behavior and apply it to lockdown compliance in … from passing away from COVID and being caught transgressing, and largest utility from preserving their mental health. While … to others are key to health policies. …

We provide a framework to disentangle preferences and beliefs in health behavior and apply it to lockdown compliance in … from passing away from COVID and being caught transgressing, and largest utility from preserving their mental health. While … to others are key to health policies …

We provide a framework to disentangle the role of preferences and beliefs in health behavior, and we apply it to … mental health. But we also document substantial heterogeneity in preferences and/or expectations by vulnerability status … political party plan to comply less. These findings emphasize the need for public health policies to account for heterogenous …

Household Panel Survey. Our results support some findings in the literature, but also point to new conclusions and show that …

of health behavior, and exploiting both lottery winnings and inheritances to test the theory. We distinguish between the … direct monetary cost and the indirect health cost (value of health lost) of unhealthy consumption. The health cost increases …, but fewer severely unhealthy goods. The empirical evidence presented suggests that differences in health costs may indeed …