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Although pollution is widespread, there is little evidence about how it might harm children's long run outcomes. Using the detailed, geocoded data that follows national representative cohorts of children born to the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth respondents over time, I compare siblings...
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There is much debate about the effects of pharmaceutical direct to consumer advertising (DTCA) on health care use. In …
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gas development (commonly known as "fracking"). Colorado provides a unique research environment to study the health …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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This study investigates the mechanisms affecting sleep choice and explores whether commitment devices and monetary incentives can be used to promote healthier sleep habits. To this end, we conducted a field experiment with college students, providing them incentives to sleep and collecting data...
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Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children study, we show that relatively older students are more likely to misperceive their …
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counties. Nonetheless, there are no consistent effects of obstetric unit closure on maternal and infant health in the full … is a more consistent pattern of negative effects of closure on infant health. Importantly, the adoption of scope … implications for narrowing racial/ethnic disparities in health in response to obstetric unit closures …
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Although yet to be clearly identified as a clinical condition, there is immense concern at the health and wellbeing …
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