limits reductions in alcohol consumption. Causal estimates are derived from a natural experiment in Illinois where spirits …We show that tax-induced increases in alcohol prices can lead to substantial substitution and avoidance behavior that … construct representative and consistent measures of alcohol prices and sales from scanner data collected for hundreds of …

distribution as the economy has grown. Is BMI growth different at different tails of the income distribution? Health and … level data from the Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS) from 1994 to 2012, we scrutinize the influence of … transitional processes, particularly economic transitions on nutritional and health outcomes. We test the hypothesis that the …

This paper analyzes the relationship between higher education and body weight and smoking behavior among women in … BMI by about 0.21% and the probability of being classified as obese by 0.44 percentage points. Regarding smoking, we find …

consumption goods involved (smoking cigarettes and drinking alcohol) and their role as anxiety reducing goods which suggests that …In this paper we look at the relationship between health and income as mediated by "lifestyle" choices; that is, a set … of behaviours which are thought to influence health and are generally considered to invoke a substantial degree of free …

educated individuals engage more in unhealthy behaviours including consumption of a poor diet, but it is not clear why they do … discriminate between the theoretical parameters. Differences in health knowledge appear to be responsible for the greatest part of … the education disparity in diet. However, when faced with the most explicit health information regarding diet, lower …