parental resources during our upbringing that can be influenced by public policy? We study the formation of adult health and … biological and adopting parents. We find that the health of the biological parents affects the health of their adopted children …-term health. However, we also find strong evidence that the educational attainment of the adopting mother has a significant impact …

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 … place of residence substantially influences health and mortality. Whether policies that encourage people to move to places …

We rank counties in the United States of America with respect to population health. We utilize the five observable … county health variables used to construct the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute's County Health Rankings … population sizes into the variances, and allow for spillovers of health stock across county lines. We find that demographic and …

An extensive literature has documented racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic disparities in health care and health outcomes … regions where quality levels for all patients, black and white, are lower. Thus ensuring equal access to health care at the … local or hospital level may not by itself erase overall health care disparities. However, reducing geographic disparities in …

Better-educated people are healthier, but the magnitude of the relationship between health and education varies … substantially across groups and over time. We undertake a theoretical and empirical study of how health disparities by education … vary over time and across the population, according to underlying health characteristics and market forces. One surprising …

One of the most robust findings in health economics is that higher-educated individuals tend to be in better health …. This paper tests whether health disparities across education are to some extent due to differences in reporting error … across education. We test this hypothesis using data from the pooled National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES …

birth location in early-life health. Using a model that includes mother and location fixed effects, we find that moving from … favorably to policies that target maternal health, and could have a small, lasting effect on long-run outcomes …