Facing unprecedented uncertainty and drastic trade-offs between public health and other forms of human well …, economics, and related fields (e.g., statistics, engineering, and health policy) to discuss approaches to modeling economy …

sparse information exists regarding the impact these smoking bans at the state and local levels have on the health of … children and infants. A rationale for expansion of smoke-free laws implicitly presumes that potential public health gains from … bans impact the venue of smoking, and the health of children and infants. Using models that exploit state- and county …

-up and positive health effects for treated children over the life course. Beneficial health impacts are largest for … disadvantaged children and may even extend to their offspring. While initial trial cohorts experienced positive health and …

. The negative effect at low levels of schooling may be due to lower average health among marginal surviving children or a … greater propensity to complete secondary school on the other hand may be due to improved health among children who are farther …

. While reminders prompt additional preventive care for focal children, we find no spillovers to other health behaviors or …

We examine the link between public spending in health and health outcomes by leveraging differential exposure to a … health spending reform prompted by Brazil's 29th Constitutional Amendment, which mandated municipalities to spend at least 15 …% of their budget on health. We map dynamic effects on health care spending, inputs, access, outputs and outcomes. For …

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced countries to make difficult ethical choices, e.g., how to balance public health and …

communication approach. To investigate which type of ambassador - health cadres, influential individuals, and laypersons - is the …