schooling and student outcomes is explained by selection bias. Spearheaded by the universal call to holiness and the opening to …

neglecting its potential effects on health and human capital. Several medical studies provide evidence of important associations … between sleep deprivation and health outcomes suggesting a large impact on health care systems and individual productivity … design to identify the effects of sleep on health status, weight, and cognitive abilities. Our results suggest that delaying …

This paper studies the effects of immigration on the allocation of occupational physical burden and work health risks …

This paper studies the effects of immigration on health. We merge information on individual characteristics from the … longitudinal component of the data to analyze how immigration affects the health of both immigrants and natives over time …. Immigrants are shown to be healthier than natives upon their arrival ("healthy immigrant effect"), but their health deteriorates …

This paper studies the effects of the 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) initiative on health insurance … coverage, access to care, health care use, and health outcomes. We exploit a difference-in-differences that relies on the … discontinuity in program eligibility criteria. We find that DACA increased insurance coverage. In states that granted access to …

This paper studies the effects of assimilation on the health of Hispanics in the US. I exploit a unique dataset of … socio-economic gradient in health, third-generation children of second- generation intermarried Hispanic women are more … likely to have poor health at birth, even after I account for second-generation health at birth, employ only within …

deteriorates. I show that a model of selection and intergenerational transmission of health reverses the apparent paradox …Despite their lower socioeconomic status, Hispanic immigrants in the United States initially have better health … outcomes than natives. Paradoxically while second-generation immigrants assimilate socio-economically, their health …

. Cognitive skills and mental health have been associated with sleep duration and are known to be strongly related to economic … as an instrument. Using the Chinese Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study, we show that a later sunset time reduces …

We use a unique data set of linked birth records from Florida to analyze the intergenerational transmission of health … grandmother fixed effects. The significant role of both maternal and paternal health at birth in explaining offspring health at …