Using several waves of the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), this study analyzes the effect of long work hours … on health and lifestyles in a sample of 18- to 65-year-old Chinese workers. Although working long hours does … significantly increase the probabilities of high blood pressure and poorer reported health, the effects are small. Also small are …

Using several waves of the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), this study analyzes the effect of long work hours … on health and lifestyles in a sample of 18- to 65-year-old Chinese workers. Although working long hours does … significantly increase the probabilities of high blood pressure and poorer reported health, the effects are small. Also small are …

We estimate the long-run labor market and health effects of breast cancer among Austrian women. Compared to a random … sample of same-aged non-affected women, those diagnosed with breast cancer face a 22.8 percent increase in health expenses, 6 …

-2017 to analyze the relationships between various socio-demographic variables and adult Body Mass Index (BMI) in Suriname. Our …

We estimate the effect of BMI on mental health for young adults and elderly individuals using data from the National … attainment) that may invalidate this IV. We find a large statistically significant effect of BMI on mental health for the elderly … IV estimates likely have to be interpreted as identifying a weighted average of effects of BMI on mental health mostly …

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 …

The relationship between lifestyle choices and health has been widely studied in the epidemiological and economic … a health production function and reduced form equations for lifestyles. As a result, behaviors toward health are taken … to be determined by exogenous socio-economic variables. In this article, we show that health is a key determinant of …

In this paper, we investigate the causal effect of years of schooling on health and health-related behavior in West … problems for both sexes. On the other hand, we find little evidence for a causal effect of education on smoking behavior …. Overall, our estimates suggest significant non-monetary returns to education with respect to health and health …

different specifications. -- lifestyles ; health ; multivariate probit ; smoking …The relationship between lifestyle choices and health has been widely studied in the epidemiological and economic … a health production function and reduced form equations for lifestyles. As a result, behaviors toward health are taken …

of health behavior, and exploiting both lottery winnings and inheritances to test the theory. We distinguish between the … direct monetary cost and the indirect health cost (value of health lost) of unhealthy consumption. The health cost increases …, but fewer severely unhealthy goods. The empirical evidence presented suggests that differences in health costs may indeed …