Little is known about how pollution impacts worker health and workplace safety. This paper leverages high … that pollution--and wildfire smoke in particular--substantially harms worker health, even at pollution levels well below …

There is much debate about the effects of pharmaceutical direct to consumer advertising (DTCA) on health care use. In …

-fired unit experience large health effects following shutdown. While these health improvements appear to capitalize into housing …

Recent research has documented a link between consumer risk preferences over health and the willingness to pay (WTP …) for medical technologies. However, the absence of empirical health risk preference estimates so far limits the … individual risk preference parameters over health-related quality of life (HRQoL) that shed light on health risk attitudes and …

U.S., their roles in shaping population health and health disparities remain largely unknown. We examine the impacts of … by which sentencing policies can affect population health. We provide suggestive evidence that three strikes policies … further interrogate state criminal legal system policies for their impacts on population health, considering whether, how, and …

Firearm violence is a pervasive public health crisis in the United States, with significant numbers of homicides … consequences of stress induced by these attacks on newborn health. We use two approaches to examine this question. First, we … exposed. Second, we investigate the impact of in-utero exposure to mass shootings on infant health outcomes using restricted …