Search Results - subject_exact:"Health behavior"

Incentives, surrogates, and long-run vaccination

Campos-Mercade, Pol; Meier, Armando N.; Meier, Stephan; … - 2026

Can monetary incentives improve health behaviors in the long run, and do commonly used surrogate outcomes capture these effects? We study these questions in the context of vaccination using a large-scale field experiment. The experiment combines commonly used surrogates-vaccination intentions,...

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Incentives, surrogates, and long-run vaccination

Campos Mercade, Pol; Meier, Armando N.; Meier, Stephan; … - 2026

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Soda Taxes, BMI and Obesity: Evidence from Seattle

Flynn, James; Gruber, Anja - 2025

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Pandemics' Backlash: The Effects of the 1918 Influenza on Health Attitudes and Behavior

Ochsner, Christian; Schmid, Lukas - 2025

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Health shocks and health behavior: a long-term perspective

Bünnings, Christian; Simankova, Irina; Tauchmann, Harald - 2025

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Intergenerational scars: The impact of parental unemployment on individual health later in life

Ubaldi, Michele; Picchio, Matteo - 2025

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The persistence of parent-led dental healthcare habits into adulthood

Yu, Jisu - 2025

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Intergenerational scars : the impact of parental unemployment on individual health later in life

Ubaldi, Michele; Picchio, Matteo - 2025

This paper studies whether individuals that experienced parental unemployment during their childhood/early adolescence have poorer health once they reach the adulthood. We used data from the German Socio-Economic Panel from 2002 until 2018. Our identification strategy of the causal effect of...

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Direct-to-consumer advertisement and prescription contraceptive choices

Santos, Carolina Tojal Ramos dos - 2025

This paper investigates the impact of direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA) on womens prescription contraceptive choices using television advertisement data and health insurance claims. I leverage quasi-random variation in exposure to local television advertising to identify the causal effect on...

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Pandemics' backlash : the effects of the 1918 influenza on health attitudes and behavior

Ochsner, Christian; Schmid, Lukas - 2025

We study the effects of the largest adverse health shock in modern medicine - the 1918 influenza pandemic - on subsequent shifts in health-related attitudes and behavior and future-oriented policies. Our analysis builds upon self-digitized, individual-level death-register excerpts, vaccination...

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Pandemics' backlash : the effects of the 1918 influenza on health attitudes and behavior

Ochsner, Christian; Schmid, Lukas - 2025

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Lead risks and prevention: evidence from Ivory Coast

Gille, Véronique; Gubert, Flore; Saint-Macary, Camille; … - 2025

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Public health and development : infrastructure, social norms, and health behaviours

Alzúa, María Laura - 2025

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Soda taxes, BMI and obesity : evidence from Seattle

Flynn, James; Gruber, Anja - 2025

This paper uses restricted-access data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Survey to assess whether the sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) tax levied in Seattle in 2018 led to declines in body mass index (BMI) and the rate of obesity. We implement an event-study design which compares...

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Compliance in the public versus the private realm: Economic preferences, institutional trust and COVID‐19 health behaviors

Sternberg, Henrike; Steinert, Janina Isabel; Büthe, Tim - 2024

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Health inequality and health types

Borella, Margherita; Bullano, Francisco; De Nardi, … - 2024

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A child feeding a child: Early mother's marriage and child growth in India

Ahmad, Amal; Vollmer, Sebastian - 2024

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Sick happens: The effect of worker health shocks on coworkers' employment and health behavior

Frimmel, Wolfgang; Wiesinger, Rene - 2024

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Incentives to vaccinate

Campos-Mercade, Pol; Meier, Armando N.; Meier, Stephan; … - 2024

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Socio-economic inequality in mortality and healthcare utilization: Evidence from cancer patients

Frimmel, Wolfgang; Glaser, Felix - 2024

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Sibling spillovers and the choice to get vaccinated : evidence from a regression discontinuity design

Humlum, Maria Knoth; Morthorst, Marius Opstrup; … - 2024

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Sibling spillovers and the choice to get vaccinated : evidence from a regression discontinuity design

Humlum, Maria Knoth; Morthorst, Marius Opstrup; … - 2022

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A child feeding a child : early mother's marriage and child growth in India

Ahmad, Amal; Vollmer, Sebastian - 2024 - This version: October 2024

Hundreds of millions of Indian children are too short for their age. In this paper we explore whether early marriage of women in India contributes to this phenomenon. Using India's national health surveys and age at menarche as an instrument, we find that one year earlier mother's marriage...

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Sick happens : the effect of worker health shocks on coworkers' employment and health behavior

Frimmel, Wolfgang; Wiesinger, Rene - 2024

We analyze how a worker's severe health shock affects the employment and health behavior of their older coworkers. We link comprehensive administrative data on labor market histories and health records from Austria to identify coworker networks and severe health shocks in small firms, which...

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Incentives to vaccinate

Campos-Mercade, Pol; Meier, Armando N.; Meier, Stephan; … - 2024

Whether monetary incentives to change behavior work and how they should be structured are fundamental economic questions. We overcome typical data limitations in a large-scale field experiment on vaccination (N = 5, 324) with a unique combination of administrative and survey data. We find that...

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Soda taxes, consumption, and health outcomes for high school students

Flynn, James - 2024

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Do time preferences predict diabetes outcomes? : a combined survey and register-based study

Madsen, Kristoffer Panduro; Kjær, Trine - 2024

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Socio-economic inequality in mortality and healthcare utilization: evidence from cancer patients

Frimmel, Wolfgang; Glaser, Felix - 2024 - This version: November 13, 2024

Health equality is an important objective in public healthcare systems, and still, we see substantial socio-economic differences. Using high-quality administrative data from Upper Austria, we analyze the socio-economic gradient in mortality and healthcare utilization following a cancer...

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Health inequality and health types

Borella, Margherita; Bullano, Francisco; De Nardi, … - 2024

While health affects many economic outcomes, its dynamics are still poorly understood. We use k-means clustering, a machine learning technique, and data from the Health and Retirement Study to identify health types during middle and old age. We identify five health types: the vigorous resilient,...

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School Vaping Bans and Youth E-Cigarette Use

Dave, Dhaval; Kim, Jooyoung; Prodromidis, Nikolaos; … - 2026

With the goal of curbing electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) use among youths, 40 states and the District of Columbia have adopted restrictions on nicotine vaping at elementary and secondary (K-12) schools. This study is the first to estimate the effect of K-12 school vaping restrictions...

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Broadband Internet Access and Adolescent Mental Health in the U.S

Churchill, Brandyn F.; Johnson, Kathryn R. - 2026

Broadband internet has become a critical component of U.S. infrastructure, but policymakers are increasingly concerned that the widespread adoption of this technology has adversely affected adolescent mental health. To test this hypothesis, we use 2009-2019 National and State Youth Risk Behavior...

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When Incentives Aren't Enough : Evidence on Inattention and Imperfect Memory from HIV Medication Adherence

Yu, Hang; Stolove, Jared; Yang, Dean; Riddell, James; … - 2026

Financial incentives are widely used to encourage beneficial behaviors, but their effectiveness may be limited by inattention and imperfect memory. We study this in a randomized trial of HIV medication adherence in Mozambique. Financial incentives alone increase adherence by 10.6 percentage...

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Can Personal Access to Medical Expertise Overcome Vaccine Hesitancy?

Anderson, D. Mark; Diris, Ron; Montizaan, Raymond; … - 2026

Using data on applicants to Dutch medical schools and their older relatives (i.e., parents, aunts, and uncles ages 60+), we estimate the effect of personal access to medical expertise on vaccine hesitancy. Leveraging variation in lottery outcomes that determine admission to medical schools, we...

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Consumer Tobacco Product Choices in China : The Impact of a Ban on Flavored E-cigarettes

Wang, Hua; Deng, Yuhan; Kenkel, Donald Scott; Mathios, … - 2026

A growing body of economic research explores the impacts of U.S. e-cigarette regulations on consumer tobacco choices, but less is known about e-cigarette regulation in China, the world's largest tobacco market. We study China's ban of flavored e-cigarettes. The ban of all flavors in e-cigarettes...

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Weighing the Impacts of GLP-1s : Quasi-Experimental Evidence From Provider Adoption

Bock, Sam; Moshfegh, Jasmin; Zhang, Jonathan - 2026

The arrival of GLP-1 medications has been described as one of the most important health care innovations in recent years. We provide large-scale quasi-experimental evidence on their real-world impacts by exploiting variation in the eventual prescribing propensities of patients' pre-existing...

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The impact of the transitions and maintenance patterns of physical activity and tobacco smoking on labor market outcomes in South Africa

Megbowon, Ebenezer Toyin - 2023

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The impact of the transitions and maintenance patterns of physical activity and tobacco smoking on labor market outcomes in South Africa

Megbowon, Ebenezer Toyin - 2023

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Overcoming time inconsistency with a matched bet : theory and evidence from exercising

Woerner, Andrej - 2023

This paper introduces the matched-bet mechanism. The matched bet is an easily applicable and strictly budget-balanced mechanism that aims to help people overcome time-inconsistent behavior. I show theoretically that offering a matched bet helps both sophisticated and naive procrastinators to...

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Overcoming Time Inconsistency with a Matched Bet: Theory and Evidence from Exercising

Woerner, Andrej - 2023

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Overcoming Time Inconsistency with a Matched Bet: Theory and Evidence from Exercising

Woerner, Andrej - 2021

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Társadalmi különbségek a gyermekek egészségi állapotában Magyarországon a 21. század második évtizedében

Hajdu, Tamás; Kertesi, Gábor - 2023

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Improved menstrual health and the workplace : an RCT with female Bangladeshi garment workers

Czura, Kristina; Menzel, Andreas; Miotto, Martina - 2024

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Improved menstrual health and the workplace: an RCT with female Bangladeshi garment workers

Czura, Kristina; Menzel, Andreas; Miotto, Martina - 2023

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The long-term effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of public health interventions; how can we model behavior? : A review

Squires, Hazel; Kelly, Michael P.; Gilbert, G. Nigel; … - 2023 - Online version of record before inclusion in an issue

The effectiveness and cost of a public health intervention is dependent on complex human behaviors, yet health economic models typically make simplified assumptions about behavior, based on little theory or evidence. This paper reviews existing methods across disciplines for incorporating...

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Társadalmi különbségek a gyermekek egészségi állapotában Magyarországon a 21. század második évtizedében

Hajdu, Tamás; Kertesi, Gábor - 2023

Our study examines social differences in health during childhood and adolescence in Hungary in the 2010s. For this analysis, we have collected administrative and survey data sources and organized them into a coherent statistical framework. These restructured data have been used to identify...

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How does opt-in work? : a field experiment on financial incentives for physical activity

Kurokawa, Hirofumi; Sasaki, Shusaku - 2023

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Sandwiched women : health behavior, health, and life satisfaction

Karceva, Marina A.; Peresetsky, Anatoly A. - 2023

This paper studies the impact of sandwich generation caregiving on the health behavior, self-assessed health and life satisfaction of Russian women. It presents evidence that sandwich generation caregiving reduces the likelihood of medical examinations, and regular meals. Alcohol consumption and...

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Sandwiched women: Health behavior, health, and life satisfaction

Karceva, Marina A.; Peresetsky, Anatoly A. - 2022

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Psychological ownership of health promotes self and other-oriented health behaviors

Rao, Mahendra Singh; Leonhardt, James M. - 2025

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Does Q&A Boost Engagement? Health Messaging Experiments in the U.S. and Ghana

Kirgios, Erika; Athey, Susan; Duckworth, Angela; … - 2025

Effective information sharing is critical for the success of organizations and governments. Because information that is easy to access is more likely to be adopted, leaders often minimize friction in information delivery. However, one type of friction may increase engagement: piquing curiosity...

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The Road Not Taken : How Driving Distance and Appointment Availability Shape the Effects of Abortion Bans

Myers, Caitlin K.; Dench, Daniel; Pineda-Torres, Mayra - 2025

We use difference-in-differences research designs to estimate the effects of abortion bans on births at the county level, leveraging data on changes in driving distance and appointment availability at the nearest facility where abortion remains legal. We find that bans alone increase births, but...

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From Access to Wellness : Early Life Exposure to Abortion Legalization and the Next Generation's Health

Noghanibehambari, Hamid; Slusky, David; Vu, Hoa - 2025

We examine the multigenerational impacts of legalized abortion in the United States by analyzing how early-life exposure to this policy shift affects birth outcomes in the next generation. Using event study and two-way fixed effects models, we link maternal early-life exposure to legal abortion...

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Expert Patients' Use of Avoidable Health Care

Kakani, Pragya; Matecna, Simone; Chandra, Amitabh - 2025

We measure whether expert patients - those trained as physicians and nurses - have fewer emergency department visits and the reasons for these differences. Relative to similar patients physicians and nurses had 19.8% and 5.1% fewer ED visits, principally due to fewer avoidable visits. The...

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Do Vaping Taxes Tip the Scale? The Effect of E-Cigarette Taxation on Obesity

Courtemanche, Charles; Krishna, Tessie; Liang, Yang; … - 2025

A large literature documents that quitting cigarette smoking may lead to weight gain because nicotine is an appetite suppressant and metabolic stimulant. However, researchers in this literature emphasize that the health benefits of smoking cessation exceed the harms from the weight typically...

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Basic Income and the Dynamics of Employment and Human Capital in a Non-Urban Disadvantaged Setting

García, Jorge Luis; Warren, Patrick; Watson, L. Reed - 2025

Why and when could basic income inhibit employment? We randomize 200 dollars of basic income per month for two years within a non-urban disadvantaged sample tracked using high-frequency administrative data. The amount provided is 21% of average all-source income. In the short term (0.5 years...

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Racial Disparities in Mortality by Sex, Age, and Cause of Death

Kaestner, Robert; Gangopadhyaya, Anuj; Schiman, Cuiping - 2025

Racial differences in mortality are large, persistent and likely caused, at least in part, by racism. While the causal pathways linking racism to mortality are conceptually well defined, empirical evidence to support causal claims related to its effect on health is incomplete. In this study, we...

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Health Insurance Protections and Ex Ante Moral Hazard in Risky Health Behaviors

Yörük, Barış K.; Sabia, Joseph J.; Krishna, Tessie; … - 2025

With the goal of lowering incentives for alcohol and substance abuse, U.S. states have historically permitted private health insurers to deny reimbursement of medical claims stemming from alcohol or opioid impairment. However, a potential unintended consequence of such "exclusion provisions" is...

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Preferences, Beliefs, and Demand for the Flu Vaccine

Sacks, Daniel W.; Sydnor, Justin R. - 2025

Can economic tools help inform the puzzlingly low rate of flu vaccination? Existing interventions focus on misinformation or nudges, not preferences over or beliefs about vaccine characteristics. Using an online experiment, we find a key role for effectiveness and short-run side-effects:...

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