Agriculture is Pennsylvania's single largest industry and migrant farm workers constitute a significant portion its labor force. Their contributions harvesting and processing farm crops have a positive economic impact on the farms and communities where they work and live. Each year approximately...

Several recent studies have documented a significant positive effect of minority racial concentration on overall mortality rates. These findings pertain to ecological studies of states, cities, counties and census tracts in the U.S. In this paper, we examine whether this effect persists after...

We explore the relationship between individual health status and three separate measures of state social capital using data from the Current Population Survey, the General Social Survey and Putnam (2000). We find that state social capital is significantly associated with health status, even...