of access to health-related expertise - captured by the presence of a health professional in the extended family - on … intra-family medical expertise has far-reaching health consequences, at all ages: It raises longevity, improves drug …

The health care system commonly relies on information about family medical history in the allocation of screenings and … marginal diagnoses across family members, thereby raising caseloads and health care costs, but without improving patient well …

This paper studies how in utero exposure to maternal stress from family ruptures affects later mental health. We find …-anxiety and depression medications in adulthood. Further, family ruptures during pregnancy depress birth outcomes and raise the … fetal stress from family ruptures and possibly from economically induced stressors such as unemployment. They further …