We document that the long-run economic benefits of a low-cost early-life health intervention transmit to later … increased economic mobility across three generations, suggesting that early health interventions may be important candidates for …

We estimate the effects of permanent legal status on the health of children born to immigrants in the United States … prenatal care. Changes in the composition of births, stemming from changes in fertility and family reunification, contribute to … but far from fully explain the birthweight impacts. The more likely mechanisms were instead the increases in family income …

We measure health inequality during middle and old age by race, ethnicity, and gender and evaluate the extent to which … it can explain inequalities in other key economic outcomes using the Health and Retirement Study data set. Our main … measure of health is frailty, which is the fraction of one's possible health deficits and is related to biological age. We …