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 …

In this paper I unify the economic theories of addiction and health deficit accumulation and develop a life cycle … theory in which individuals take into account the fact that the consumption of addictive goods reduces their health and … motivating empirically observable patterns of addictive goods consumption. I take the case of smoking as unhealthy behavior …

Medical experts have argued forcefully that using cigarettes harms health, prompting the adoption of myriad anti-smoking … policies. The association between smoking and mortality may, however, be driven by unobserved factors, making it difficult to … a teenager, which are arguably exogenous, on adult smoking participation and mortality. A one-dollar increase in teenage …

Medical experts have argued forcefully that using cigarettes harms health, prompting the adoption of myriad anti-smoking … policies. The association between smoking and mortality may, however, be driven by unobserved factors, making it difficult to … a teenager, which are arguably exogenous, on adult smoking participation and mortality. A one-dollar increase in teenage …

In this paper I unify the economic theories of addiction and health deficit accumulation and develop a life cycle … theory in which individuals take into account the fact that the consumption of addictive goods reduces their health and … motivating empirically observable patterns of addictive goods consumption. I take the case of smoking as unhealthy behavior …

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 …

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

This is a short paper analyzing the potential effects of a targeted school-building program on health indicators. The … program led to increases in body mass index (BMI) among the underweight. There seems to be a positive correlation between KGBV … exposure and probability of being in the "healthy" band of BMI indicators. …

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 …

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