In this paper we examine the impact of a tailored health warning on health outcomes. We exploit the design of a … medical practitioner. The effect of getting a formal hypertension diagnosis was to reduce the incidence of smoking and improve …

This paper estimates the causal effects of parental education on their children's risky health behaviours and health … status. I study the intergenerational effects of a compulsory schooling reform in Germany after World War II. Implemented … in family income, family stability, fertility and parental health-related behaviours are less relevant empirically. The …

This paper investigates the role of biased health perceptions as driving forces of risky health behavior. We define … absolute and relative health perception biases, illustrate their measurement in surveys and provide evidence on their relevance … provide robust empirical evidence that respondents who overestimate their health are less likely to exercise and sleep enough …

Background: Labor market outcomes can be directly or indirectly influenced by the health behavior patterns of the labor … force. This study assesses the association between patterns of physical activity and smoking behavior maintenance (and their … techniques. (3) Results: The bivariate probit regression results regarding the impact of health behavior transition and …

incorporates mental and physical health. Correlated mental and physical health production functions are simultaneously estimated …, including the endogenous decisions to seek psychotherapy and smoke cigarettes as health accumulation factors. The model is … indicate that mental health has a stronger impact on labor supply than physical health. At the same time, estimates show 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 … choice. The main underlying assumption is that individuals are co-producers of their own health. We first present a …