historic, yet largely unacknowledged, health emergency …

This paper analyzes the determinants of health insurance enrollment and health expenditure in Ghana using micro data … availability of health facilities in one's own community. It is possible to analyze the determinants of health insurance enrollment … in Ghana because its public health insurance system (the National Health Insurance Scheme or NHIS) is, in theory …

The Food and Drug Administration has proposed to prohibit menthol cigarettes, which are smoked by almost 19 million …

Bias among health care providers can lead to poor-quality care and poor health outcomes, and it can exacerbate …

Healthy food choices are a canonical example used to illustrate the importance of time preferences in behavioral … food choice, capturing a number of behaviors consistent with self-control problems, which provides direct evidence for the …

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 …