In this paper, we examine the impact of school shootings on the human health and capital outcomes of middle and high … experience declines in health and well-being, engage in more risky behaviors, and have worse education and labor market outcomes …

affects health. However, population sorting and other confounders make it difficult to disentangle the effects of place on … health from other geographic differences in life expectancy. Recent studies have overcome such challenges to demonstrate that … place of residence substantially influences health and mortality. Whether policies that encourage people to move to places …

Health insurance may play an important role not only in immediate access to care but in the management of chronic … disease, which would have implications for long-run care needs as well as health outcomes. Such causal connections are often … several markers of physical health. This analysis complements several prior studies by introducing new data elements and by …

. For adults, neighborhood environments matter for their health and well-being but have more ambiguous impacts on labor …

We studied the effect of marijuana liberalization policies on perinatal health with a multiperiod difference … health. MMLs had no significant effect on maternal substance use disorder hospitalizations nor on newborn health and fairly …

Medical experts have argued forcefully that using cigarettes harms health, prompting the adoption of myriad anti …

. We quantify the effect of the CWA on a direct measure of health and incorporate health benefits into a cost …-benefit analysis. Using a difference-in-differences framework, we compare health upstream and downstream from wastewater treatment … weight by 8 grams. A back-of-the-envelope calculation bounds infant health benefits below $29 billion …

Good health is important for employment at older ages. However, little is known about how health-related functional … capacity by race/ethnicity and gender are small, suggesting health is not a major driver of observed earnings disparities …

Introduced as part of the War on Poverty, Community Health Centers (CHCs) deliver primary care to underserved … health using the rollout of CHCs and a flexible event study framework with Vital Statistics natality data. Our results show … residence. These improvements in infant health can be explained by increased access to early prenatal care and reductions in …