We examine the health impacts of long commute time by exploiting a large-scale placed-based policy in South Korea. The … and health-related activities such as exercise. …

goals, such as family life and health, and reduces well-being. There is need to devise policies that will yield better …

goals, such as family life and health, and reduces well-being. There is need to devise policies that will yield better …

On almost all measures of physical health, Scots fare worse than residents of any other region of the UK and often … suicide than those in other parts of Great Britain. This result is particularly driven by outcomes in Strathclyde and is …

suicide rates. Our results suggest that the passage of a medical marijuana law is associated with an almost 5 percent … reduction in the total suicide rate, an 11 percent reduction in the suicide rate of 20- through 29-year-old males, and a 9 … percent reduction in the suicide rate of 30- through 39-year-old males. Estimates of the relationship between legalization and …

This paper characterizes the link between ambient temperatures and a broad set of mental health outcomes. We find that … health. Specifically, cold temperatures reduce negative mental health outcomes while hot temperatures increase them. Our … conditioning penetration rates, accessibility of mental health services, and other factors. The character of the results suggests …

Though there is clinical evidence linking pollution induced inflammatory factors and major depression and suicide, no … relationship between air pollution and suicide in the United States. Using detailed cause of death data from all death certificates … NASA satellite data, and suicide rates. Using wind direction as an instrument for reducing potentially endogeneity and …

. In line with this theory, we find that persistent shocks have a significant impact on happiness while transitory shocks … do not. This has consequences also for inference about the happiness effect of employment. We find that employment per se … is rather associated with a decline in happiness. …

This paper uses sequential stochastic dominance procedures to compare the joint distribution of health and income … of income and health using procedures that are robust to aggregation techniques. The paper's approach is more general … than comparisons of health gradients and does not require the estimation of health equivalent incomes. We illustrate the …

mental health status and a health care system. The decline of tasks that were historically performed by the middle class and … distressed workers can mitigate their hardships by the intake of illicit drugs or by consuming health goods. We argue that … opioid prices, i.e. one factor in isolation is insufficient. Our analysis also points to a central role of the health care …