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 …

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 …

to provide novel evidence on economic inequality in infant and maternal health. We find that birth outcomes vary non …---have a death rate that is half that of infants of parents in the bottom ventile. When studying maternal health, we find a … racial disparities, and we observe virtually no convergence in health outcomes across racial and ethnic groups as income …

to robot penetration experience a significant increase in drug- or alcohol-related deaths and mental health problems … no evidence of significant effects on mental health and work and life satisfaction …

when the global burden of mental health illness is also on the rise. We examine the causal impact of early life exposure to … warfare on long-term mental health, using novel data on the amount of bombs dropped in German cities by Allied Air Forces … significantly worse mental health later in life when they are between ages late 50s and 70s. Specifically, an increase of one …

concerns that inclusion of race as a covariate exacerbates and perpetuates long-standing disparities in quality of health care … health care resources …

after 1960 are no longer eligible for "occupational DI." Occupational DI (ODI) implies benefit eligibility when health … such low take-up, we employ a general equilibrium model featuring the roles of the social safety net, administrative costs … lifecycle work disability risk, (2) strong and positive income and health gradients in private ODI take-up, and (3) inversely …

We study the effect of community access to behavioral health (mental health and substance use disorders) treatment on …-duty assaults and county-level data on the number of treatment centers within the community that offer behavioral health treatment … access to treatment on behavioral health extend to the work environment of police officers …