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Does health information affect lifestyle behaviours? The impact of a diabetes diagnosis Gaggero, Alessio Gil, Joan, 1966- Jiménez Rubio, Dolores Zucchelli, Eugenio Diabetis Qualitat de vida Condició física Diabetes Quality of life Physical fitness Despite an increasing interest in the effect of health information on health-behaviours, evidence on the causal impact of a diagnosis on lifestyle factors is still mixed and does not often account for long-term effects. We explore the role of health information in individual health-related decisions by identifying the causal impact of a type-2 diabetes diagnosis on body mass index (BMI) and lifestyle behaviours. We employ a fuzzy regression discontinuity design (RDD) exploiting the exogenous cut-off value in the diagnosis of type-2 diabetes provided by a biomarker (glycated haemoglobin) drawn from unique administrative longitudinal data from Spain. We find that following a type-2 diabetes diagnosis individuals appear to reduce their weight in the short-term. Differently from previous studies, we also provide evidence of statistically significant long-term impacts of a type-2 diabetes diagnosis on BMI up to three years from the diagnosis. We do not find perceivable effects of a type-2 diabetes diagnosis on quitting smoking or drinking. Overall, health information appears to have a sustained causal impact on weight reduction, a key lifestyle and risk factor among individuals with type-2 diabetes. 2023-05-09T17:15:36Z 2023-05-09T17:15:36Z 2022-12 2023-05-09T17:15:36Z info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 0277-9536 https://hdl.handle.net/2445/197758 725386 eng Reprodució del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115420 Social Science & Medicine, 2022, vol. 314, p. 115420 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115420 cc-by (c) Gaggero et al., 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess 15 p. application/pdf Elsevier Ltd Articles publicats en revistes (Economia)