This paper considers the relationship between local economic conditions and health with a focus on different approaches … mortality and infant health and then consider how the estimated effects vary when the analysis is conducted at differing levels … downturns are associated with improved health. Further investigation reveals that county economic conditions have an independent …

Jamaican health workers over a 2-year period that taught parenting skills and encouraged mothers to interact and play with …

.5 percent below the 1990 peak and a mere one percent above the 1993 trough. Employment rates tell a similar story. Our …

This paper documents a counter-cyclical pattern in the health of children, and examines whether this pattern is due to … behaviors, and babies' health Using national data from the Natality Files from 1975 onward, we find that babies conceived in … post-neonatal mortality. These health improvements are attributable both to selection (differences in the type of mothers …

employment in high skill and low skill occupations relative to middle skilled occupations (i.e., job 'polarization'); (4) rapid … for analyzing how recent changes in the earnings and employment distribution in the United States and other advanced …

than the less affluent. There is little doubt about the existence of this socio-economic gradient in health, but there … relationships between socio-economic status and health. We describe the approach of testing for the absence of causal channels …, and we repeat their analysis using the full range of data that have become available in the Health and Retirement Study …