Using longitudinal data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey, we investigate the causal relation between housing … conditions (both internal and external) and health among urban adults aged 18+. We find that housing improvement reduces the … probability of bad self-reported health by 3.7 percent, with more pronounced impacts among females, older adults, those with lower …

interact in explaining a range of health outcomes. Using rich Australian survey data, we find that, while the two traits are … of control and health is reduced once we control for self-control, suggesting that self-control mediates at least part of … physical health. …

This paper is a meta-analysis on the relationship between unemployment and health. Our meta-dataset is made up of 327 … estimators. The average effect of unemployment on health is negative, but small in terms of partial correlation coefficient. We … psychological domains of health and that short- and long-term unemployment spells equally affect health. Dealing with endogeneity …

Research has shown that commuting is related to the health of workers, and that mode choice may have differential … effects on this relationship. We analyze the relationship between commuting by different modes of transport and the health … status reported by US workers, using the 2014-2016 Eating and Health (EH) Module of the American Time Use Survey (ATUS). We …

We provide a comprehensive picture of the health effects of social isolation using longitudinal data over 21 European … countries. We then estimate linear regressions to study the dynamic "value added" effects of SI on health and other mediator … outcomes, and find that social isolation at baseline leads to worsening health in the next waves along all the dimensions we …

We analyze whether employees with diagnosed mental health disorders have a higher probability of being laid off during … workforce between two consecutive years. We estimate whether those who have been laid off have more diagnosed mental health … set of employee characteristics, we find that having had any mental health disorder diagnosis in the three years that …

-run effects of an intensive support program on the housing, employment, and health outcomes of chronically homeless people in … changes in health. Three years after the program ends, we observe no significant differences between the treatment and control …