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The Economics of Risky Health Behaviors
health behaviors alcohol tobacco smoking drugs obesity diet food physical activity public health public policy taxation subsidies addiction externalities advertising information behavioral economics neuroeconomics human capital education prices sex income time preference peers bounded rationality medical costs employment wages crime hyperbolic discounting
2012/10/30
Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary lifestyles (leading to obesity) are a major source of preventable deaths. This chapter...
Health Effects on Children's Willingness to Compete
willingness to compete non-cognitive skills human capital health household survey studies
2012/10/30
The formation of human capital is important for a society’s welfare and economic success. Recent literature shows that child health can provide an important explanation for disparities in children's h...
The Psychological Costs of War: Military Combat and Mental Health
military service post-traumatic stress disorder depression
2012/10/31
While descriptive evidence suggests that deployment in the Global War on Terrorism is associated with adverse mental health, the causal effect of combat is not well established. Using data drawn from ...
Medical Technology and the Production of Health Care
life expectancy health care production health expenditure spatial dependence
2012/10/31
This paper investigates the factors that determine differences across OECD countries in health outcomes, using data on life expectancy at age 65, over the period 1960 to 2007. We estimate a production...
Wars and Child Health: Evidence from the Eritrean-Ethiopian Conflict
child health conflict economic shocks Africa
2012/10/31
This is the first paper using household survey data from two countries involved in an international war (Eritrea and Ethiopia) to measure the conflict’s impact on children's health in both nations. Th...
Health and Well-Being in the Crisis
well-being, symptoms side effects Gallup economic crisis financial crisis ill-being
2012/10/31
The internet has become an important data source for the Social Sciences because these data are available without lags, can be regarded as involuntary surveys and hence have no observer effect, can be...
Assessing the Effectiveness of Health Care Cost Containment Measures
health expenditures cost containment measures copayment convalescent care SOEP
2012/10/31
Using SOEP panel data and difference-in-differences methods, this study is the first to empirically evaluate the effectiveness of four different health care cost containment measures within an integra...
Exploring the meaning of context for health: Community influences on child health in South India
caste child health child nutrition India low birthweight neighborhood effects
2011/2/24
Much research attention has been devoted to community context and health. Communities are often defined as residential spaces, such as neighborhoods, or as social groupings, such as caste in India. Us...
We use longitudinal data from the 1984 through 2007 waves of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to examine how occupational status is related to the health transitions of 30 to 59 year-old U.S. males....
A Labor Market Approach to the Crisis of Health Care Professionals in Africa
labor market health care Africa
2012/11/1
This paper adopts a labor market economics perspective to understanding the crisis of health care professionals in Africa. Five challenges resulting from this crisis are identified: a production chall...
Putting Different Price Tags on the Same Health Condition: Re-evaluating the Well-Being Valuation Approach
well-being compensation variati ons monetary valuations happiness health GHQ
2012/11/1
Many recent writings in health policy have proposed that health be valued directly and in monetary terms using the new well-being valuation method. Yet there is currently no clear consensus on what th...
Long-term Effects of Early Childhood Malaria Exposure on Education and Health: Evidence from Colonial Taiwan
malaria early childhood education health Taiwan
2012/11/1
We estimate the effects of early childhood malaria exposure on education and health at older ages by exploiting variations in malaria exposure risk around birth that resulted from a universal malaria ...
Out of Sync? Demographic and other social science research on health conditions in developing countries
AIDS/HIV DALYS developing countries health injuries non-communicable diseases research priorities
2011/1/20
In this paper, we present a framework for considering whether the marginal social benefits of demographic and social science research on various health conditions in developing countries are likely to...
Traffic Congestion and Infant Health: Evidence from E-ZPass
Traffic Congestion Infant Health Evidence E-ZPass
2014/3/18
We exploit the introduction of electronic toll collection, (E-ZPass), which greatly reduced both traffic congestion and vehicle emissions near highway toll plazas. We show that the introduction of E-Z...
Enrolment in Micro Life and Health Insurance: Evidences from Sri Lanka
microinsurance household behaviour Sri Lanka
2012/11/2
Microinsurance is an emerging concept protecting households from the potentially catastrophic expenditures associated with family related shocks. Therefore, this paper presents evidence on the determi...