This paper examines the relationship between extreme socioeconomic disadvantage and poor health by providing the first … magnitude of health disparities associated with homelessness. We find that non-elderly people experiencing homelessness have 3 … persistent hardships associated with homelessness and show that the well-documented gradient between health and poverty persists …

U.S., their roles in shaping population health and health disparities remain largely unknown. We examine the impacts of … by which sentencing policies can affect population health. We provide suggestive evidence that three strikes policies … further interrogate state criminal legal system policies for their impacts on population health, considering whether, how, and …

health outcomes in cities distant from where trade activities occur. We examine Brazil, which has ramped up agricultural … respiratory causes. Our estimates reveal a large telecoupled health externality of trade deforestation: over 700,000 premature …

from a hedonic model of health care in which heterogenous individuals choose how much to spend on medical services that … their federal administrative records. The mean VSL is approximately $1 million at age 67 and increasing in health, income …

I use microeconomic estimates of the effect of health on individual outcomes to construct macroeconomic estimates of … the proximate effect of health on GDP per capita. I employ avariety of methods to construct estimates of the return to … health, which I combine with cross-country and historical data on height, adult survival rates, and age at menarche. Using my …

To combat childhood overweight, which has risen dramatically in the past three decades, many medical and public health … from the 1994 and 2000 School Health Policies and Programs Study and the 2001 Shape of the Nation Report.<br> <br>We find …

We develop an economic framework for valuing improvements to health and life expectancy, based on individuals … by about $1.5 trillion per year since 1970. The potential gains from future innovations in health care are also extremely …

We propose a method of quantifying non-fatal health on a 0-1 QALY scale that details the impact of specific symptoms … and impairments and is not based on ratings of counterfactual scenarios. Measures of general health status are regressed … on health impairments and symptoms in different domains, using ordered probit and ordinary least squares regression. This …