Vaccination represents a canonical example of externalities in economics, yet there are few estimates of their …

of welfare-relevant externalities. In this paper, we test whether mandating employee access to paid sick leave has …

We show that downsizing has substantial externalities on the health of workers who remain in the firm. To this end, we … health externalities due to downsizing imply non-negligible cost for firms, and that wage cuts may have similar effects. …

to malaria, with forest cover having no discernible effect on other diseases with a disease ecology different from that …

productivity from adoption of genetically modified soybeans and look at externalities across municipalities sharing the same water …

. This paper tests whether health disparities across education are to some extent due to differences in reporting error … across education. We test this hypothesis using data from the pooled National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES … stigmatized ones like smoking and obesity. Differential reporting error across education leads to underestimates of the true …

This study provides causal effect of education on health behaviors in Turkey which is a middle income developing … mass index (BMI). We examine the causal effect of education on these health behaviors and the BMI Instrumental variable … approach is used in order to address the endogeneity of education to health behaviors. Educational expansion of the early 1960s …