Evidence on cannabis legalization's effects on mental health remains scarce, despite both rapid increases in cannabis … use and an ongoing mental health crisis in the United States. We use granular geographic data to estimate medical cannabis … that medical cannabis availability had negative effects on mental health for the adult population overall. We also find …

program on mortality and on household behavior related to child labor and schooling, employment of adults, and fertility. We … find consistent effects of the program on reductions in mortality throughout the age distribution, but mainly at earlier …

A recent debate in the medical literature has arisen around the mortality effects of obesity. Whereas it has been … undermines the notion that economic growth comes with health warnings. We revisit this debate going over the mortality effects of …

energy consumption, which caused an increase in mortality during very cold temperatures. We estimate that the increase in … mortality from higher electricity prices outnumbers the mortality from the accident itself, suggesting the decision to cease …

fully compensate for on-the-job risks, the willingness to pay to reduce mortality risks estimated from hedonic regressions …