use a randomized experiment to evaluate the impacts of a communication training program for mothers on child health in … husbands and, thereby, boost investments in children's health. We find that the program increases spousal discussion about the … family's health, nutrition, and finances. However, this does not increase overall adoption of health-promoting behaviors or …

We use data from the Population Assessment of Tobacco Use and Health (PATH), a longitudinal data set including self …

The opioid crisis generates broader societal harms beyond direct health and economic effects, impacting non …

We estimate the effects of permanent legal status on the health of children born to immigrants in the United States …

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 …

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

-fired unit experience large health effects following shutdown. While these health improvements appear to capitalize into housing …

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

Recent research has documented a link between consumer risk preferences over health and the willingness to pay (WTP …) for medical technologies. However, the absence of empirical health risk preference estimates so far limits the … individual risk preference parameters over health-related quality of life (HRQoL) that shed light on health risk attitudes and …

expressing health care-seeking behavior as a function of economic and behavioral fundamentals and highlighting the role of trust …. We report several findings. First, we document a strong association between higher levels of trust in the health care … scenarios, from routine check-ups to vaccinations. Second, the impact of trust on health care utilization is similar in …