This paper analyzes whether moderate weight reduction improves subjective health perception in obese individuals. To … variation. This allows for identifying short-term effects of moderate reductions in body weight on subjective health. In … improved subjective health. Yet, in contrast to these, we establish genuine short-term effects. This finding may encourage …

Establishing a causal relationship between health and productivity is not straightforward. On one hand, as income grows …

those with adverse prenatal health or high paternal BMI, an exception being that cognition is only affected by exposure at … effects of changes in the supply of high caloric nutrition on the health and cognitive ability of young adult males. Our … results indicate that exposure to these establishments during childhood and adolescence increases BMI and has negative effects …

those with adverse prenatal health or high paternal BMI, an exception being that cognition is only affected by exposure at … effects of changes in the supply of high caloric nutrition on the health and cognitive ability of young adult males. Our … results indicate that exposure to these establishments during childhood and adolescence increases BMI and has negative effects …

We study smoking persistence in ten countries using data from the European Community Household Panel. Such persistence … selectivity. We find that for both smoking decisions true state dependence is in general much smaller when unobserved individual …

Researchers have focused on the contemporaneous relationship between cigarette taxes and smoking, while the longer … effects of cigarette taxes experienced as a teenager on smoking later in life. We find that a one-dollar increase in the … cigarette tax experienced between the ages of 12 and 17 is associated with substantial reductions in smoking participation and …

Cigarette smokers earn significantly less than nonsmokers, but the magnitude of the smoking wage gap and the pathways … Cohort, and we simulate the model under counterfactual scenarios that isolate the contemporaneous effects of smoking from … for unobserved heterogeneity in the joint determination of smoking, human capital, labor supply, and wages, suggest that …

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 …

unknown whether mental health morbidity causally leads to addictive behaviours. This paper utilises a fixed effects … instrumental variables model, which is identified by time-varying sources of plausibly exogenous variations in mental health, and a … cigarette smoking and alcohol drinking behaviours. We find that mental distress significantly increases the prevalence and …