We revisit the cyclical nature of birth rates and infant health and investigate to what extent the relationship between … provide novel evidence that infant health is countercyclical based on timing of conception, but procyclical based on time in … utero. The negative relationship between the in utero aggregate unemployment rate and infant health also disappears when …

We examine the effect of enforcing minimum quality standards (MQSs) on consumer health. In the late 1800s, the urban …-19 percent. Ours is the first study to provide evidence that MQSs can improve consumer health when directly applied to an …

We report results from the first randomization of a regulatory reform in the health sector. The reform established … epidemics. In our experiment, all 1348 health facilities in three Kenyan counties were classified into 273 markets, and the … markets were then randomly allocated to treatment and control groups. Government inspectors visited health facilities and …

with a variety of county-level public health outcomes, to provide the first estimates of the effects of these mandates on …

Evidence on cannabis legalization's effects on mental health remains scarce, despite both rapid increases in cannabis … use and an ongoing mental health crisis in the United States. We use granular geographic data to estimate medical cannabis … dispensary availability's effects on self-reported mental health in New York state from 2011 through 2021 using a two …