-life health find inconclusive and mixed results. This paper re-evaluates this literature and studies the long-term effects of in …

daily deaths from COVID-19 fixed, what was the impact of vaccines on cumulative mortality from COVID-19 up through June 2023 … behavioral responses to COVID-19 deaths on cumulative mortality from COVID-19 over this same time period? In answering the first … question, I find that vaccines saved 748,600 lives through June 2023. That is, without vaccines, cumulative mortality from …

did not affect other health-seeking behavior of mothers. The results illustrate the potential spillover effects of …

how people use advance information to reduce mortality from heat and cold. Theoretically, more accurate forecasts reduce … mortality if and only if mortality risk is convex in forecast errors. We test for such convexity using data on the universe of … mortality events and weather forecasts for a twelve-year period in the U.S. Results show that erroneously mild forecasts …

We examine the mortality effects of a 1947 school reform in Japan, which extended compulsory schooling from primary to … setting, we fail to find that the reform improved later-life mortality up to the age of 87 years, although it significantly … increased years of schooling. This finding suggests limited health returns to schooling at the lower level of educational …

. Mortality from all causes during the pandemic was elevated 26 percent for working-age adults (18-64), as compared to 18 percent … historic, yet largely unacknowledged, health emergency …

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

Newborn health is an important component in the chain of intergenerational transmission of disadvantage. This paper … contributes to the literature on the determinants of health at birth in two ways. First, we analyze the role of maternal …

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 …

multiple dimensions of subjective well-being and objective health behaviors, laying bare gender disparities in health … behaviors, report enhanced self-perceived health, perceive higher relative income and social status, and exude greater … fact, they tend to engage in health-compromising behaviors, such as increased smoking, and exhibit higher rates of obesity …