exacerbate health disparities through discrimination. We provide a hierarchical definition of discrimination consisting of … framework of algorithmic discrimination through the lens of measurement errors, which is familiar to the health economics …

The past century witnessed a dramatic improvement in public health, the rise of modern medicine, and the transformation …

The contribution of cigarette smoking to national health expenditures is thought to be large, but our current … smokers from merged National Health Interview Survey and Medicare claims information. Consistent with our theory, we find that …

Education and income are strong predictors of health and longevity. In the last 20 years many efforts have been made to … various studies is ambiguous: the effects of education and income policies on health are heterogeneous and vary over time, and …

Newborn health is an important component in the chain of intergenerational transmission of disadvantage. This paper … contributes to the literature on the determinants of health at birth in two ways. First, we analyze the role of maternal …