Economists have traditionally been very cautious when studying the interaction between employment and health because of … the two-way causal relationship between these two variables: health status influences the probability of being employed … and, at the same time, working affects the health status. Because these two variables are determined simultaneously …

Firearm violence is a pervasive public health crisis in the United States, with significant numbers of homicides … consequences of stress induced by these attacks on newborn health. We use two approaches to examine this question. First, we … exposed. Second, we investigate the impact of in-utero exposure to mass shootings on infant health outcomes using restricted …

expressing health care-seeking behavior as a function of economic and behavioral fundamentals and highlighting the role of trust …. We report several findings. First, we document a strong association between higher levels of trust in the health care … scenarios, from routine check-ups to vaccinations. Second, the impact of trust on health care utilization is similar in …

Do environmental conditions pose greater health risks to individuals living in urban or rural areas? The answer is …

We study the intergenerational health consequences of forced displacement and incarceration of Japanese Americans in … the US during WWII. Incarcerated mothers had babies who were less healthy at birth. This decrease in health represents a … intergenerational health, our results are a lower bound …

-life health find inconclusive and mixed results. This paper re-evaluates this literature and studies the long-term effects of in …

improvements in self-reported health. The association between area education and health increased greatly between 1990 and 2010 … less educated areas. Differences in health-related amenities, ranging from hospital quality to pollution, explain no more … than 17% of the area human capital spillovers on health. Over half of the correlation between area human capital and health …

We use data from the Population Assessment of Tobacco Use and Health (PATH), a longitudinal data set including self …