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One theory for why there is an education gradient in health outcomes is that more educated individuals more quickly … absorb new health-related information. The measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) controversy provides a case where, for a short …
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We estimate and decompose family income-related inequality in child health in the US and analyze its dynamics using the … income-related health mobility index recently introduced by Allanson et al., 2010. Data come from the 1997, 2002, and 2007 … income-related child health inequality remains stable from early childhood into adolescence. The main factor underlying …
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health. We estimate the causal effect of the 1986 Chernobyl catastrophe after 20 years by linking geographic variation in …
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Is unemployment the overwhelming determinant of domestic violence that many commentators expect it to be? The contribution of this paper is to examine, theoretically and empirically, how changes in unemployment affect the incidence of domestic abuse. The key theoretical prediction is that male...
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