Previous research in the US has found negative health effects of contamination when it triggers regulatory violations …. An important question is whether levels of contamination that do not trigger a health-based violation impact health. We … results data in Pennsylvania. We create an overall water quality index and an index specific to reproductive health. We focus …

educational structure of the population and of policies which address the health impediments for labor force participation. Of the … the labor market integration of people with health limitations provide a particularly promising avenue to increase labor … force participation rates and thus help to address the challenges posed by demographic aging. If the health gap in …

The onset of a disability or major health shock can affect the labor supply of not only those experiencing the event … supply decisions after a spouse’s disability or health shock and the role of paid leave laws implemented in California and … participation of potential caregivers decreased after spousal work-limiting disability or chronic health condition and, to a lesser …

life expectancy related to observable factors such as income, gender, and health have large effects on savings, and that …

Research has found that season of birth is associated with later health and professional outcomes; what drives this …

not asked how insults to child health after birth affect long-term outcomes, whether health at birth matters primarily … because it predicts future health or through some other mechanism, or whether health insults matter more at some key ages than … at others? We address these questions using a unique data set based on public health insurance records for 50 …

This paper reviews the evidence on the well-known positive association between socioeconomic status and health. We … particular attention to how the mechanisms linking health to each of these dimensions diverge and coincide. The extent to which … socioeconomic advantage causes good health varies, both across these four dimensions and across the phases of the lifecycle …

This paper evaluates the health impact of a signature initiative of the War on Poverty: the roll out of the modern Food …

This paper investigates the effects of expanding public health insurance eligibility for older children. Using data … from the National Health Interview Surveys from 1986 to 2005, we first show that although income continues to be an … important predictor of children's health status, the importance of income for predicting health has fallen for children 9 to 17 …