the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), with a recently published data set on state-level income …

This paper comprehensively studies the health effects of Daylight Saving Time (DST) regulation. Relying on up to 3 ….4 million BRFSS respondents from the US and the universe of 160 million hospital admissions from Germany over one decade, we do … not find much evidence that population health significantly decreases when clocks are set forth by one hour in spring …

mostly explained by the higher unemployment rate during a recession, together with the fact that at all times, unemployed …

, such as the disabled, who are already dependent on the health-care system. Furthermore, the data allow us to look at pro …

economy. A key issue examined is how the level of pain in a society is influenced by the unemployment rate. Method: The study … of the economy. Pain is high when the unemployment rate is high. That is not because of greater pain among people who …

mental well-being. Yet the association between local area unemployment and health behaviours is mostly positive, with higher …The relationship between recessions and health is mixed, with some evidence from the most recent financial crisis … the Irish crisis of 2008, to test the impact of economic expansion and contraction on mothers physical and mental health …

With periodic recessions and the rising costs of health care, it is important to know how labor market participation … and insecurity affects health outcomes. Yet, this line of research faces a number of methodological challenges which this … market shocks during severe recessions affect men's body mass index (BMI) and health-related behaviors. We use growth curve …