heightened stress due to fears of family separation and loss of income among undocumented immigrants. Using vital statistics on … infant births from the National Center of Health Statistics for the 2003 through 2016 period and a difference …-in-differences design, we compare the health outcomes of infants with likely undocumented mothers before and after the intensification of …

allocated to an unfamiliar language environment. The differences are driven by growth rather than gestation and manifest in a 2 …This paper investigates the intergenerational effect of communication barriers on child health at birth using a natural … allocated to an environment that matched their linguistic heritage are on average 72 gram heavier (or 2.2%) than those that were …

evidence from humans support claims of an adverse relationship between lead pollution and human health. Since lead exposure is … has been given to lead's impact on fertility, infant mortality, and infant health. This paper examines the existing quasi …

evidence from humans support claims of an adverse relationship between lead pollution and human health. Since lead exposure is … has been given to lead's impact on fertility, infant mortality, and infant health. This paper examines the existing quasi …

-term outcomes, including lifetime income, health, cognitive skills, and education. Our results show that the school lunch program … attainment and health and these effects can explain a large part of the return to school lunches. …

is entirely driven by an increase in mortality among low income individuals, who are more likely to experience liquidity …

Although lower income is associated with overweight (and obesity), such an association is explained by a number of … other confounding effects such as omitted variables (e.g., time preferences) explaining that income effect on overweight. We … study the effect of unearned income shocks resulting from a lottery win (windfall income) on both overweight (alongside …

Although lower income is associated with overweight (and obesity), such an association is explained by a number of … other confounding effects such as omitted variables (e.g., time preferences) explaining that income effect on overweight. We … study the effect of unearned income shocks resulting from a lottery win (windfall income) on both overweight (alongside …

A vast literature has established a strong positive association of income with health status and a negative association … with mortality. This paper studies the effects of income on health and mortality, using only the part of income variation …. A 10 percent increase in income increases good health by about 0.01-0.02 standard deviations. …