We study the effects of the largest adverse health shock in modern medicine - the 1918 influenza pandemic - on … subsequent shifts in health-related attitudes and behavior and future-oriented policies. Our analysis builds upon self … influenza leads to a decline in societal support for public health measures at the aggregate level, mainly triggered by deceased …

health behaviours, as it emphasises the significant influence of religious identity on public health outcomes. It provides … new insights into adherence to health directives, addressing significant gaps in the research by distinguishing among …

. Potential explanations include health and wealth e ffects on preferences, expected longevity or disposable total wealth. Using … with recursive utility, as well as health-dependent income and mortality risk. Our estimates of the deep parameters … highlight the importance of health capital, mortality risk control, convex health and mortality adjustment costs and binding …

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 …

Near the end of life, health declines, mortality risk increases and curative is replaced by uninsured long-term care …, accelerating the fall in wealth. Whereas standard explanations emphasize inevitable aging processes, we propose a com- plementary … closing down the shop justification where agents' decisions affect their health and the timing of death. Despite preferring to …