In this paper, I combine economic theories of health behavior and addiction in order to explain the phenomenon of … anorexia nervosa and its impact on health and longevity. Individuals consume normal goods and foods and can work off excess … calories with physical exercise. There exists a healthy body mass index and deviations from it increasingly cause health …

What effect does rising income inequality have on mortality rates in developed countries? In particular, does the rise … of the super-wealthy or the top 0.01% of the population effect overall health of the population? This paper focuses on … the effect of rising income inequality on mortality rates of men and women in a subset of OECD countries over six decades …

effect of income inequality on mortality rates for men and women in a subset of OECD countries over nearly six decades from … 1950–2008. Using adult mortality rates at aged sixty-five as the outcome measure of mortality, the latest available data on … the relationship. The findings show that income inequality has a negative effect on mortality rates for both men and women …