forms of health on other life dynamics, with better mental health having stronger impacts on marriage and fertility outcomes …We present a dynamic life-cycle model of women's labor supply, marriage, and fertility choices that explicitly … incorporates mental and physical health. Correlated mental and physical health production functions are simultaneously estimated …

The contribution of cigarette smoking to national health expenditures is thought to be large, but our current … smokers from merged National Health Interview Survey and Medicare claims information. Consistent with our theory, we find that … understanding of the effect of smoking on annual medical expenditures is limited to studies that use cross-sectional data to make …