This paper examines the long-term health impact of Agent Orange, a toxic military herbicide containing dioxin that was … used extensively during the U.S.-Vietnam war in the 1960-70s. Using a nationally representative health survey and an … likely to suffer from a health disease medically linked to Agent Orange three decades later. Second, disaggregating by …

With periodic recessions and the rising costs of health care, it is important to know how labor market participation … and insecurity affects health outcomes. Yet, this line of research faces a number of methodological challenges which this … market shocks during severe recessions affect men's body mass index (BMI) and health-related behaviors. We use growth curve …

This paper investigates the relationship between personality traits in adolescence and health behaviours using a large … at age 15-16, on the incidence of health behaviours such as: alcohol consumption; cannabis and other drug use … adolescent and family characteristics and we find that personality traits do affect health behaviours. In particular, individuals …

This is the first study which provides empirical analysis of the variation in health behaviors for adult men and women … in Turkey which is a developing country. The health behaviors considered are smoking, drinking, fruit and vegetable … health behaviors. The results indicate that smoking is positively associated with education at all levels with a decreasing …

Based on the German Socio-Economic Panel, the influence of the body mass index on health, earnings and satisfaction is … analysed by gender. Basic results are: health worsens, income declines and satisfaction is poorer with higher body mass index … determined, the health estimates show nonlinear effects but the direction of action is unchanged. Effects on earnings differ …

We investigate long-run effects of episodes of hunger experienced as a child on health status and behavioral outcomes … suggest that individual behavior is a pathway between early life shocks and adult health: We find that those who experienced …-documented biological channel from early life circumstances to adult health, there is also a behavioral pathway …

consequential effects on maternal and newborn health in Mexico for 2008-2015. It models how changes in the obesity level of …

We study the effect of permanent income innovations on health for a prime-aged population. Using information on more …-demographic factors, health outcomes and selected risk factors. We then exploit structural and arguably exogenous changes in cohort … incomes over the eighties and nineties to uncover causal effects of permanent income shocks on health. We find that such …