effect of military service on lifetime earnings, wages, and employment are obtained by comparing men born before July 1, 1937 …

We propose a Bayesian factor analysis model to rank the health of localities. Mortality and morbidity variables …

of education on health behaviors. Using the number of academic track schools in a state as an instrumental variable for … years of schooling, we investigate the causal effect of schooling on health behavior such as smoking and related outcomes …

absence from work, we also consider effects on doctor/hospital visits and subjective health indicators. We also add to the … terms) at higher quantiles, meaning that the reform predominantly reduced long durations of absence. In terms of health, the … negative effects on health outcomes or perceived liquidity constraints …

The goal of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was to achieve nearly universal health insurance coverage through a … Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System to examine the impacts of the ACA on health care access, risky health behaviors, and … self-assessed health after two years. We estimate difference-in-difference-in-differences models that exploit variation in …

considered as rich in a multidimensional setting. We use this framework to analyze the role of wealth, health and education, in … driven by health and to a lesser extent by wealth …

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 …