There is much debate about the effects of pharmaceutical direct to consumer advertising (DTCA) on health care use. In …

High-speed internet has increased the amount of information available in health care markets. Online information may … improve health outcomes if it reduces information frictions and helps patients choose higher quality providers or causes … providers to improve quality. We examine how health outcomes for common procedures in Medicare changed after broadband internet …

U.S., their roles in shaping population health and health disparities remain largely unknown. We examine the impacts of … by which sentencing policies can affect population health. We provide suggestive evidence that three strikes policies … further interrogate state criminal legal system policies for their impacts on population health, considering whether, how, and …

multiple dimensions of subjective well-being and objective health behaviors, laying bare gender disparities in health … behaviors, report enhanced self-perceived health, perceive higher relative income and social status, and exude greater … fact, they tend to engage in health-compromising behaviors, such as increased smoking, and exhibit higher rates of obesity …

gas development (commonly known as "fracking"). Colorado provides a unique research environment to study the health …

Previous research in the US has found negative health effects of contamination when it triggers regulatory violations …. An important question is whether levels of contamination that do not trigger a health-based violation impact health. We … results data in Pennsylvania. We create an overall water quality index and an index specific to reproductive health. We focus …

We estimate the role of firms in worker health care utilization. Using linked administrative data on Austrian workers … utilization in a setting with non-employer provided universal health care. We find that firms are responsible for nearly 30 … percent of the variation in across-worker health care expenditures. Effects are not driven by changes in geography or industry …

, much less is known about intergenerational persistence in health. We examine the correlation in longevity (an overall … measure of health) across generations using a unique dataset containing information about more than 26 million families … health. Moreover, this correlation remained low throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries despite dramatic changes in …