Health and Health Behaviors during the Worst of Times

Tekin, Erdal; McClellan, Chandler; Minyard, Karen

doi:10.3386/w19234

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“…Despite this, average levels of wellbeing and self-reported health do not appear to have declined. These findings provide support to some recent papers which have reported similar findings for the US (Tekin et al (2013) and Ruhm (2013)) and for Ireland (Walsh, 2011).…”

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The wealth, health and well-being of Ireland’s older people before and during the economic crisis

Barrett¹,

O’Sullivan²

2014

Applied Economics Letters

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The economic crisis of 2008/9 was felt more acutely in Ireland relative to elsewhere and culminated in the international bailout in 2010. Given the economic collapse, Ireland provides an ideal case-study of the link between wealth collapses and movements in variables such as health and well-being. Using nationally-representative samples of older people collected before and during the crisis, we show that mean net assets fell by 45 percent between 2006/7 and 2012/13. In spite of this massive fall in wealth, measures of health and well-being remained broadly unchanged. However, expectations about future living standards became less optimistic. The results tend to support the findings of other recent studies that recessions do not have widespread negative effects on health and well-being.

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“…However, the emerging evidence is that the relationship between macro-economic events and health is loosening e.g. Tekin et al (2013) and Ruhm (2013). Deaton (2012) also found a very weak relationship between subjective wellbeing and the recession in the USA.…”

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The wealth, health and well-being of Ireland’s older people before and during the economic crisis

Barrett¹,

O’Sullivan²

2014

Applied Economics Letters

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“…For the category "$75,000 or more," I assigned an annual income of $112,500 (150% of $75,000). The previous studies that used the BRFSS adopted the same method Tekin et al, 2013). 16 Smoking is included because there is evidence that individuals who quit smoking typically gain weight, and an increase in the price of cigarettes has contributed to a rise in obesity (Chou et al, 2004).…”

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Life satisfaction, overweightness and obesity

Kuroki

2016

Intnl. J. Wellbeing

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Many economists share the view that the rise in obesity is largely the result of rational decision-making by individuals who compare risks and benefits. A dominant view among economists is that there is no economic justification for government intervention unless there is a market failure. However, recent developments in behavioral economics suggests that people often fail to make optimal decisions, and that public welfare may be improved by government interventions even when there is no externality. This paper examines the association between one's body weight and life satisfaction by utilizing data on self-reported life satisfaction, which approximates individual utility, after briefly reviewing the economics of obesity and discussing the rationale and justification of obesity-related policies. Using a large data set (N = 1,465,219), it is found that life satisfaction of people who are overweight or obese is lower. The adverse life satisfaction effect of obesity remains statistically significant, even when socioeconomic factors and obesity-related health variables are controlled. The findings suggest that many overweight and obese people may be making sub-optimal decisions when it comes to eating. While the findings are not causal and thus do not necessarily suggest that government intervention will be welfareenhancing even in the absence of negative externalities, effective anti-obesity policies may lead to higher life satisfaction among many overweight people who are struggling with self-control problems.

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“…7 Tekin et al (2013) showed that most measures of health status were not significantly influenced by the unemployment rate. However, smoking and drinking declined, and exercise rose during the Great Recession.…”

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“…Tekin et al (2013) With regard to a sharp fall in value of wealth, Cotti et al (2015) reveals that stock market crashes are related to declines in self-reported mental health and risky health behaviors such as more smoking and drinking. Fiuzat et al (2010) show that there is a significant correlation between periods of stock market crashes and growth in acute myocardial infarction (AMI) rates.…”

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The Impact of Housing Prices on Health in U.S. Before, During and After the Great Recession

Sung

2017

SSRN Journal

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I estimate the effects of U.S. Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) housing prices on a variety of health outcomes and risky health behaviors separately for homeowners and tenants. The constructed dataset consists of information on individuals from the 2002 -2012 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) combined with homeownership data from the March Current Population Survey (CPS) and housing prices from Freddie Mac. I estimate positive results for homeowners in terms of their health and negative results for tenants. I also find increases in risky behaviors among tenants associated with increases in housing prices, which may be driving the reduction in their health status. Those estimated effects are concentrated on low income homeowners and tenants. The estimated contemporaneous effects do not persist in the long run while the effects of an increase in housing prices on being obese become more pronounced for homeowners, resulting in worse self-reported health.

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Health and Health Behaviors during the Worst of Times

Cited by 58 publications

References 25 publications

The wealth, health and well-being of Ireland’s older people before and during the economic crisis

The wealth, health and well-being of Ireland’s older people before and during the economic crisis

Life satisfaction, overweightness and obesity

The Impact of Housing Prices on Health in U.S. Before, During and After the Great Recession

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