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school calendar and have implications for policies targeted toward women's and teenage children's health and well-being …
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increased years of schooling. This finding suggests limited health returns to schooling at the lower level of educational …
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Pragmatic cancer screening trials mimic real-world scenarios in which patients and doctors are the ultimate arbiters of … of estimates from 17 sites in five randomized trials measuring screening effects on colorectal cancer incidence. While … cancer screening effects …
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We use a longitudinal dataset measuring beliefs and behaviors to study the dynamics of model - or narrative - adoption during the Covid-19 pandemic. We show that individuals switch beliefs about the effectiveness of preventive behaviors following changes in perceived risk. The adoption of...
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We use data from the Population Assessment of Tobacco Use and Health (PATH), a longitudinal data set including self …
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The opioid crisis generates broader societal harms beyond direct health and economic effects, impacting non …
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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 …
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-life health find inconclusive and mixed results. This paper re-evaluates this literature and studies the long-term effects of in … education. We also provide suggestive evidence that reductions in adulthood income are a likely mechanism channel …
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This paper documents a longitudinal crisis of midlife among the inhabitants of rich nations. Yet middle-aged citizens in our data sets are close to their peak earnings, have typically experienced little or no illness, reside in some of the safest countries in the world, and live in the most...
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There is much debate about the effects of pharmaceutical direct to consumer advertising (DTCA) on health care use. In …
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