affects health. However, population sorting and other confounders make it difficult to disentangle the effects of place on … health from other geographic differences in life expectancy. Recent studies have overcome such challenges to demonstrate that … place of residence substantially influences health and mortality. Whether policies that encourage people to move to places …

The COVID-19 pandemic has upended health and living standards around the world. This article provides an interim …-economic effects in terms of living standards, education, health, and gender equality, which appear to be unprecedented in depth and …

Health insurance may play an important role not only in immediate access to care but in the management of chronic … disease, which would have implications for long-run care needs as well as health outcomes. Such causal connections are often … several markers of physical health. This analysis complements several prior studies by introducing new data elements and by …

pain in mid-life (age 44) on health, wellbeing and labor market outcomes in later life. We examine data taken at age 50 in … chronic pain at age 44 continue to report pain and poor general health in their 50s. However, the associations are much … stronger for those with chronic pain. Furthermore, chronic pain at age 44 is associated with a range of poor mental health …

We studied the effect of marijuana liberalization policies on perinatal health with a multiperiod difference … health. MMLs had no significant effect on maternal substance use disorder hospitalizations nor on newborn health and fairly …

unexplored margin: how children's programs impact parents' well-being. We explore changes in children's public health insurance …-being as measured by the Center for Epidemiological Studies-Depression score, a proxy for mental health. These results uncover …

Education and income are strong predictors of health and longevity. In the last 20 years many efforts have been made to … various studies is ambiguous: the effects of education and income policies on health are heterogeneous and vary over time, and …

Whether and how a paternal health shock cascades across multiple generations to affect descendant health is … understudied even though a link between ancestral living conditions and descendant health may constitute an important source of … differences in the stock of health capital across families and thus across ethnic, racial and social groups. I study how a …