| Field | Before | After |
|---|---|---|
| Field Study Withdrawn | Before | After No |
| Field Intervention Completion Date | Before | After October 26, 2019 |
| Field Data Collection Complete | Before | After Yes |
| Field Final Sample Size: Number of Clusters (Unit of Randomization) | Before | After n/a |
| Field Was attrition correlated with treatment status? | Before | After No |
| Field Final Sample Size: Total Number of Observations | Before | After 15,853 |
| Field Final Sample Size (or Number of Clusters) by Treatment Arms | Before | After 230 diagnosed, 15,623 not diagnosed |
| Field Public Data URL | Before | After https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/ |
| Field Is there a restricted access data set available on request? | Before | After No |
| Field Program Files | Before | After No |
| Field Data Collection Completion Date | Before | After October 26, 2019 |
| Field Is data available for public use? | Before | After Yes |
| Field | Before | After |
|---|---|---|
| Field Paper Abstract | Before | After Using individual-level panel data from Understanding Society I estimate the response to a disease diagnosis — heart attack or diabetes diagnosis — on a healthy lifestyle index. To overcome the endogeneity of a diagnosis, I match on initial health risks. I find individuals improve their overall lifestyle healthiness when faced with a large negative health event such as a diagnosis (heart attack or diabetes) whereas they do not respond to solely receiving information about certain disease risk factors, via a diagnosis of high blood pressure or chest pain. The drivers of the overall e ect are a decrease in the number of cigarettes smoked and an increase in the probability to quit drinking alcohol; there is no signifcant effect found for either diet or exercise. I find some heterogeneity by sex, but only when looking at individual lifestyle behaviours. Overall, the findings suggest that the realization of a disease diagnosis leads individuals to improve their lifestyle behaviours, while only a signal about their health risks leads to no such change. |
| Field Paper Citation | Before | After VERDUN, Zoey Sarah, Impact of a health shock on lifestyle behaviours, EUI ECO, 2020/02 - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/67590 |
| Field Paper URL | Before | After https://cadmus.eui.eu/handle/1814/67590 |