We study the effects of job loss and unemployment insurance (UI) on health among Brazilian workers. We construct a … effects of job loss on health. Our results indicate that the health costs of job loss are only partially explained by the …

-19 related deaths since – as of June 16, 2020 – they constitute 35 percent of the dead, so that they are dying at a rate … 1.3 times higher than their population share. Furthermore, by combining the spatial distribution of mortality with the … 1930s redlining maps for the Chicago area, we obtain a block group level panel dataset of weekly deaths over the period …

There have been more than 500,000 opioid overdose deaths since 2000. To analyze the opioid epidemic, a model is …

The mounting evidence on the demographics of COVID-19 fatalities points to an overrepresentation of minorities and an … occupational segregation in the health care and transportation sectors and by commuting on public transport. Living arrangements … and lack of health insurance are instead found uninfluential. The Black female bias is spatially concentrated in …

in turn to increase births by 2.4%. …

-trip waiting periods do not have substantial effects on abortions or births. Two-trip waiting periods are estimated to reduce … 8.9%, and increasing births by 1.5%. These effects are larger for young women and for women of color. These effects also …

persistence of unemployment in the U.S., but the evolution in mobility and demographics over time should have more than offset the …