care subsidies are associated with worse maternal health and poorer interactions between parents and their children. In … fill this gap by examining the impact of child care subsidy receipt on maternal health and the quality of child … particular, subsidized mothers report lower levels of overall health and are more likely to show symptoms consistent with anxiety …

Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, we exploit exogenous variation in deployment assignment to estimate the effect of combat …

health, the causal effect of combat is not well established. Using data drawn from the National Longitudinal Study of … Adolescent Health, we exploit exogenous variation in deployment assignment and find that soldiers deployed to combat zones where … suicidal ideation, psychological counseling, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Our estimates imply lower-bound health …

individuals exposed to deadlier mass shootings. Furthermore, the reductions in wellbeing are greater for parents with children … emotional health outcomes that capture community satisfaction, sense of safety, and levels of stress and worry. We leverage … community wellbeing and emotional health. According to our results, a mass shooting is associated with a 27 percentage point …

Despite the well-documented benefits of high-quality child care, many preschool-age children in the U.S. attend low …, accomplishing this goal requires a thorough understanding of the factors that influence parents' child care decisions. This paper … that while parents are extremely sensitive to the cost of child care, they also have strong preferences for quality …

While previous studies have shown that recessions are associated with better health outcomes and behaviors, the focus … previously established counter-cyclical pattern in health and heath behaviors is held during the Great Recession. Using data from … capturing health and health behaviors, we show that the association between economic deterioration and these outcomes has …