We study the impact of economic crisis on health in Mexico. There have been four wide-scale economic crises in Mexico … in the past two decades, the most recent in 1995-96. We find that mortality rates for the very young and the elderly … increase or decline less rapidly in crisis years as compared with non-crisis years. In late 1995-96 crisis, mortality rates …

is no evidence that recent increases in inequality raised mortality beyond what it would otherwise have been … birth cohorts observed from 1975 to 1995. We assume that health status is determined by social status, defined as income … relative to the mean income of a reference group. When reference groups are not observed, health is a function of income whose …

place of residence substantially influences health and mortality. Whether policies that encourage people to move to places … affects health. However, population sorting and other confounders make it difficult to disentangle the effects of place on … health from other geographic differences in life expectancy. Recent studies have overcome such challenges to demonstrate that …

The contribution of cigarette smoking to national health expenditures is thought to be large, but our current … model of smoking and medical care use that highlights two forms of selection: selective mortality and non-random cessation … smokers from merged National Health Interview Survey and Medicare claims information. Consistent with our theory, we find that …

Education and income are strong predictors of health and longevity. In the last 20 years many efforts have been made to … various studies is ambiguous: the effects of education and income policies on health are heterogeneous and vary over time, and …

poor health of young slave children. The sources of deprivation can be traced to the fetal period. The slave work routine …

We investigate when and how health shocks reverberate across the life cycle and down to descendants in a manual labor … economy by examining the association of war wounds with the socioeconomic status and older age mortality of US CivilWar (1861 … their wealth declined by 37-46%. War wounds were correlated with children's socioeconomic and mortality outcomes in ways …

larger subsequent survival gains and mortality reductions, controlling for changing incidence. I use the MEDLINE … estimated to have caused a 38% decline in the premature (before age 80) cancer mortality rate 12-24 years later …

modes; health care access; long-run opportunity, as measured by income mobility and incarceration rates; human mobility; and … underlying population health. We find that the proportions of black and Hispanic residents in a ZIP code are both positively and …