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Trends in the School Lunch Program : Changes in Selection, Nutrition & Health

Bonomo, Therese; Schanzenbach, Diane Whitmore - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

There has been significant media attention on the issue of childhood obesity, leading policymakers to reform the … nutritional content maps into obesity outcomes, using panel data on a nationally representative cohort of children, tracking them … participation in the school lunch program leads to weight gain, as measured by changes in obesity, overweight, and BMI. These …

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The Hidden Health Care Crisis Behind Bars : A Randomized Trial to Accredit U.S. Jails

Alsan, Marcella; Yang, Crystal - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

The U.S. has one of the highest incarceration rates in the world, with over seven million admissions to jails each year. Incarcerated individuals are the only group in the U.S. that have a constitutional right to receiving "reasonably adequate" health care. Yet, there is little oversight and...

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Poverty and Health

Lleras-Muney, Adriana; Schwandt, Hannes; Wherry, Laura - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Poverty is strongly associated with worse health across countries and within countries across individuals. However, not all poor individuals suffer from poor health: the effects of poverty on health vary across place and time. In this review, we discuss the evidence documenting these patterns,...

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"Despair" and Death in the United States

Ruhm, Christopher J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Increases in "deaths of despair" have been hypothesized to provide an important source of the adverse mortality experiences of some groups at the beginning of the 21st century. This study examines this possibility and uncovers the following primary findings. First, mental health deteriorated...

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Passing as White : Racial Identity and Old-Age Longevity

Noghanibehambari, Hamid; Fletcher, Jason - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

In the presence of segregation and discrimination during the late 19th and early 20th century, many African American men changed their racial identity and "passed" for white. Previous studies have suggested that this activity was associated with increases in income and socioeconomic status...

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Unhooking the Past : Early-life Exposure to Hookworm Eradication and Later-life Longevity

Noghanibehambari, Hamid; Fletcher, Jason - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

This study examines the long-term effects of the Rockefeller Sanitary Commission's (RSC) hookworm eradication campaign, initiated in the American South in the 1910s, on old-age longevity. Utilizing Social Security Administration death records linked to the 1940 full-count census, we employ a...

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Heterogeneity in Disease Resistance and the Impact of Antibiotics in the US

Cook, C. Justin; Fletcher, Jason - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We hypothesize that the impact of antibiotics is moderated by a population's inherent (genetic) resistance to infectious disease. Using the introduction of sulfa drugs in 1937, we show that US states that are more genetically susceptible to infectious disease saw larger declines in their...

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Maternal and Infant Health Inequality : New Evidence from Linked Administrative Data

Kennedy-Moulton, Kate; Miller, Sarah; Persson, Petra; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We use linked administrative data that combines the universe of California birth records, hospitalizations, and death records with parental income from Internal Revenue Service tax records and the Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics file to provide novel evidence on economic inequality in...

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Is Income Inequality Linked to Infectious Disease Prevalence?$bA Hypothesis-Generating Ecological Study Using Tuberculosis

Bhattacharya, Jay; Bhattacharya, Joydeep; Kim, Minkyong - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We study the association between infectious disease prevalence and income inequality. We hypothesize that random social mixing in an income-unequal society brings into contact a) susceptible and infected poor and b) the infected-poor and the susceptible-rich, raising infectious disease...

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Accounting for the Widening Mortality Gap Between Adult Americans with and without a BA

Case, Anne; Deaton, Angus - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We examine mortality differences between Americans with and without a four-year college degree over the period 1992 to 2021. From 1992 to 2010, both groups saw falling mortality, but with greater improvements for the more educated; from 2010 to 2019, mortality fell for those with a BA and rose for...

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