-life health find inconclusive and mixed results. This paper re-evaluates this literature and studies the long-term effects of in …

. Mortality from all causes during the pandemic was elevated 26 percent for working-age adults (18-64), as compared to 18 percent … historic, yet largely unacknowledged, health emergency …

how people use advance information to reduce mortality from heat and cold. Theoretically, more accurate forecasts reduce … mortality if and only if mortality risk is convex in forecast errors. We test for such convexity using data on the universe of … mortality events and weather forecasts for a twelve-year period in the U.S. Results show that erroneously mild forecasts …

We examine the mortality effects of a 1947 school reform in Japan, which extended compulsory schooling from primary to … setting, we fail to find that the reform improved later-life mortality up to the age of 87 years, although it significantly … increased years of schooling. This finding suggests limited health returns to schooling at the lower level of educational …

daily deaths from COVID-19 fixed, what was the impact of vaccines on cumulative mortality from COVID-19 up through June 2023 … behavioral responses to COVID-19 deaths on cumulative mortality from COVID-19 over this same time period? In answering the first … question, I find that vaccines saved 748,600 lives through June 2023. That is, without vaccines, cumulative mortality from …

did not affect other health-seeking behavior of mothers. The results illustrate the potential spillover effects of …

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 …

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 …