A substantial literature has examined the impact of stress during early childhood on later-life health. This paper … contributes to that literature by examining the later-life health impact of stress during adolescence and early adulthood, using a … the probability of being obese and a 1 percentage point (10%) increase in the probability of being in fair or poor health …

Obesity has been one of the fastest growing health concerns among children, particularly among disadvantaged children … schools and day care play a potentially important role in determining children's health status …

the lifecycle, education, social benefits take-up, and adult mortality. For this purpose, we have linked a unique dataset … insurance and that birth weight matters for adult mortality. We supplement our main analysis with more recent data, which …

the health of the population requires integrating these different trends. We compare the risk factor profile of the …

pandemic influenced health outcomes. We first document large differences in content between the two most popular cable news …

distribution, where the health consequences are especially severe. Lastly, we model time-inconsistent preferences by computing …

. However, little is known about the influence of these policies on children's health and well-being. In this paper, we study …