this policy causally reduced injury-induced mortality in the country by at least 14% during the five weeks of the ban. We … argue that this estimate constitutes a lower bound on the true impact of alcohol on injury-induced mortality. We also …

population density and the extent of tests conducted to fine tune the index. The association between per capita health … expenditure and relative performance indices reveals that there are states where relatively sound health infrastructure has not … ensured better performance in curing patients and those relatively weak have done better. But with a multi-dimensional health …

Medical experts have argued forcefully that using cigarettes harms health, prompting the adoption of myriad anti …-smoking policies. The association between smoking and mortality may, however, be driven by unobserved factors, making it difficult to … a teenager, which are arguably exogenous, on adult smoking participation and mortality. A one-dollar increase in teenage …

example, report contradictory effects of education and compulsory schooling on mortality - ranging from zero to large … mortality reductions. Using data from 19 compulsory schooling reforms implemented in Europe during the twentieth century, we … quantify the mean mortality effect and explore its dispersion across gender, time and countries. We find that men benefit from …

We examine the effects of a comprehensive school reform on mental health. The reform postponed the tracking of students … is no discernible effect on mental health related hospitalizations on average even though the effect is precisely …

This paper studies the causal effect of parental death on children’s mental health. Combining several nationwide … hospitalization for mental health-related reasons by the age of 30. We find that there is no clear evidence of increased … death. We also provide descriptive evidence of an increase in the use of mental health-related medications and sickness …

this policy causally reduced injury-induced mortality in the country by at least 14% during the five weeks of the ban. We … argue that this estimate constitutes a lower bound on the true impact of alcohol on injury-induced mortality. We also …

Using data from the Health Survey for England and the English Longitudinal Study on Ageing, we estimate the causal … effect of schooling on health. Identification comes from two nation wide increases in British compulsory school leaving age … exogenous variation in schooling by using biomarkers as measures of health outcomes in addition to self-reported measures. We …