Childhood obesity has adverse health and productivity consequences and poses negative externalities to health services … hypothetical investment scenarios. We show that perceived returns are predictive of health investments and outcomes, and that less … educated parents perceive the returns to health investments to be lower, thus contributing to the socioeconomic inequality in …

This study provides causal effect of education on health behaviors in Turkey which is a middle income developing … country. Health Survey of the Turkish Statistical Institute for the years 2008, 2010 and 2012 are used. The health behaviors … considered are smoking, alcohol consumption, fruit and vegetable consumption, exercising and one health outcome namely, the body …

Using a matched insurant-general practitioner panel data set, we estimated the effect of a general health … status at any point in time, we do not recommend a general health-screening program. However, given that we found some …-screening program on individuals' health status and health care cost. To account for selection into treatment, we used regional …

While previous studies have shown that recessions are associated with better health outcomes and behaviors, the focus … previously established counter-cyclical pattern in health and heath behaviors is held during the Great Recession.Using data from … capturing health and health behaviors, we show that the association between economic deterioration and these outcomes has …

primarily the symptom of real declines in the health of near-elderly Americans, relative to their European peers. In particular …, we use a microsimulation approach to project what US longevity would look like, if US health trends approximated those in … Europe. We find that differences in health can explain most of the growing gap in remaining life expectancy. In addition, we …

supply, but very little is known about how the minimum wage affects health, including children's health. We address this … health.Using data on the entire universe of births in the US over 25 years, we find that an increase in the minimum wage is …, which are some channels through which minimum wage can affect infant health. Labor market policies that enhance wages can …

This paper investigates the average effects of (firm-provided) workplace health promotion measures in form of the … analysis of sickness absenteeism and health circles/courses on labour market out-comes of the firms' employees. Exploiting … health circles/courses increase tenure and decrease the number of job changes across various age groups. A key finding is …

We study the impact of a mixed capitation model known as the Family Health Organization (FHO) on selected quality and … quantity outcomes relative to an enhanced fee-for-service model known as the Family Health Group (FHG) among primary care … hypothesis that the mixed payment model may reduce quantity and improve quality of health care relative to the fee …

We study individuals' decisions to decline or accept preventive health care interventions such as flu shots and …