in recessions by examining the movement of relative unemployment rates over the business cycle. Any conclusion drawn from … of unemployment are not examined. Using Current Population Survey data matched across adjacent months from 1989 to 2004 … from non-participation. Narrowing of the racial unemployment gap near the peak of the business cycle is driven by a …

Although theories in both evolutionary biology and economics predict that an individual’s health should be associated … collecting detailed measures of health, time preference, and expected longevity on a sample of individuals in townships around … preference and health, in an area of the world with high mortality and morbidity. Interestingly, we find that both physical …

informed choices about foods with enhanced health attributes.The degree to which a particular jurisdiction permits health … claims for food products and the type of allowable health claim influence the information set available to consumers. In … Canada the regulatory environment governing health claims for functional food products issomewhat more restrictive than in …

of the health effects associated with exposure to wildfire smoke using a simple cost of illness approach and for the …

analysis is to investigate the importance of health, education, and infrastructure indicators for income growth. The second … health. Only the higher education of poor urban households seems to have affected prospects for growing out of poverty, and …

analysis is to investigate the importance of health, education, and infrastructure indicators for income growth. The second … health. Only the higher education of poor urban households seems to have affected prospects for growing out of poverty, and …

In this paper we investigate if there was a causal effect of changes in current and 'permanent' income on the health of …-effects estimators to our ordinal health measures. Whilst the exogeneity of reunification allows us to establish the causality between … income and health, the fixed-effects methodology additionally enables us to controlfor individual unobservable heterogeneity …

, health status, region of residence and having been arrested, account for the majority of labour market success (or lack of it …