medical preventive measures improve expected health, they do not save money. Various lifestyle and early childhood … interventions, however, may both save money and improve health. Second, preventive measures, including medical and lifestyle …, generalizations in everyday discourse about the value of prevention can be overly broad. Third, health insurance coverage for medical …

The role of data analysis in communication, persuasion, and decision-making is discussed. Some problems with current … data-analysis practice are presented, including communication, complex models, large data bases, one-pass processing, rigid …

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 …

Opioid use is one of the most substantial and long-lasting public health crises faced by the United States. This crisis … opioids and health and healthcare, and crime outcomes in the U.S. We focus on the U.S., a country particularly hard hit by the …Our findings align with the general perception that the opioid crisis has negatively impacted a range of health …

-imposed lock-downs may not present a clear trade-off between GDP and public health, as commonly believed, even though its immediate …

We study how the health and health insurance coverage of Mexican immigrants change with time in the US. Cross … and fixed effects methods show that time in the US is unrelated to health insurance coverage. Both cross sectional and … longitudinal analyses provide evidence of unhealthy assimilation--self-reported health declines slightly with time in the US …

drugs, use of other medical services, and health for a nationally representative sample of Medicare beneficiaries. Given the … health. We find that gaining prescription drug insurance through Medicare Part D was associated with a 70% increase in the … health care services or health, as measured by functional status and self-reported health. Among those in poorer health, we …

. In a financial crisis bank health is significantly damaged. Post-crisis regulatory changes have aimed at restoring bank … health, but measuring bank health by Tobin's Q, we find that the ill health of banks in the recent U.S. financial crisis and …