In this paper, we provide causal evidence on abortions and risky health behaviors as determinants of mental health … diagnosed with a mental health condition.We then analyze mental health development and risky health behaviors other than … choices and mental health, in which mental health disparity across groups is generated by different degrees of selfcontrol …

Since the start of the CoViD-19 pandemic, a major source of concern has been its effect on mental health. Using pre …-pandemic information and five customized questionnaires in the Dutch LISS panel, we investigate how mental health in the working population … has evolved along with the most prominent risk factors associated with the pandemic. Overall, mental health decreased …

Social preferences facilitate the internalization of health externalities, for example by reducing mobility during a …

, augmented with an SIR block, in which agents optimally choose the intensity of both general and group-specific social …

, and the general incentive structure. We find that subjects provide significantly more costly effort beyond a level …

) and accompanied by shorter-lived responses in health expenditure. Additional analyses suggest that the victimisation is a …

-friendly behavior, and health status, including addictive behavior. Most importantly, we show that dropping prudence and temperance from …

How do health crises affect election results? We combine a panel of election results from 1893-1933 with spatial … lasting shift towards left-wing parties. We argue that pandemic intensity increased the salience of public health policy …, prompting voters to reward parties signaling competence in health issues. Alternative explanations such as pandemic …