overweight and obesity. Methods: Longitudinal data from post- (T2) and follow-up (T3) measurements of a school-based health …

Expenditure on health and safety is a substantial part of GDP, but public agencies in many countries, including … Australia, have only qualitative views about the value of life and health. Also, despite considerable work by economists on the … value of life and health in recent years, some important issues, such as the value of a healthy life-year, remain unresolved …

theory in which individuals take into account the fact that the consumption of addictive goods reduces their health and …In this paper I unify the economic theories of addiction and health deficit accumulation and develop a life cycle …

, health risks, and monetary costs. Diet is described by a number of portions of five different food items eaten per week …, indicating that lower costs lead to a higher probability of choosing the alternative lifestyle. Reducing health risks and … large dis-benefit. Respondents also prefer to increase portions of health-improving vegetables and fruits, however, this is …

"The NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health provides summaries of publications like this. You can sign up to receive the … NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health by email. Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected … overviews the theoretical frameworks for, and empirical evidence on, the economics of risky health behaviors. It describes …