Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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7338207 | Social Science & Medicine | 2013 | 11 Pages |
Abstract
⺠Identifies the causal mechanisms that link business cycles to health behaviors. ⺠Uses a structural approach to examine effects of wages and hours of work on health behaviors. ⺠Increases in wages caused by business cycles are related to more cigarette use. ⺠Increases in hours of work are related to more cigarette use, but less physical activity and less physician visits. ⺠Suggests heterogeneous impacts of business cycles on time-intensive and less time-intensive behaviors.
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Authors
Xin Xu,