. In a financial crisis bank health is significantly damaged. Post-crisis regulatory changes have aimed at restoring bank … health, but measuring bank health by Tobin's Q, we find that the ill health of banks in the recent U.S. financial crisis and …

health outcomes or healthcare quality, and to explore how to expand the empirical opportunities for measuring such outcomes … using U.S. national survey data. To these ends, the paper provides an overview of Grossman's seminal health production …

In 2006, Massachusetts passed health care reform legislation designed to achieve nearly universal coverage through a … from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, we provide evidence that health care reform in Massachusetts led to … better overall self-assessed health. Various robustness checks and placebo tests support a causal interpretation of the …

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

Occupational choice is a significant input into individuals' health investments, operating in a manner that can be … either health-promoting or health-depreciating. Recent studies have highlighted the potential importance of initial … a causal relationship between initial occupational choice at labor entry and subsequent health behaviors and habits. We …

This study estimates long-run impacts of a child health investment, exploiting community-wide experimental variation in …

misinforming audiences. We study the extent to which misinformation broadcast on mass media at the early stages of the coronavirus … pandemic influenced health outcomes. We first document large differences in content between the two most popular cable news …

spring of 2020. This paper examines the impact that these actions had on emissions and expected health effects through …

,649), we show that women are more likely to see COVID-19 as a very serious health problem, to agree with restraining public …