. Underlying these overall impacts, the experiment revealed important differences in program effects between young women who were … in school at the start of the intervention and those that were not, as well as between young women who received cash …

Large differences in fertility between women with high and low levels of education suggest that schooling may have a … direct impact on knowledge and use of contraception. We investigate this issue using information on women in Mexico. In order … their propensity to use contraception at sexual debut. This indicates that the impact of schooling on women's wellbeing …

: smoking, obesity, heavy alcohol use, and unsafe use of motor vehicles, firearms, and poisonous substances. These risk factors … increased obesity, greater firearm deaths, and increased deaths from poisonous substances, which together reduced quality …-adjusted life expectancy by 1.77 years. We model the hypothetical effects of a 50% decline in morbid obesity and in poisoning deaths …

empirical setting to isolate the relative role of extrinsic and intrinsic incentives in determining surgeon response … than surgeon response to profit incentives. …