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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 Chronic Disease Index : Analyzing Health Inequalities Over the Lifecycle
Danesh, Kaveh; Kolstad, Jonathan; Parker, William; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
The rich live longer than the poor, but relatively little is known about the evolution of health inequality across the lifecycle. Using rich administrative data from the Netherlands, we develop an index of chronic disease burden based on the projected contribution to old-age mortality. Chronic...
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Obstetric Unit Closures and Racial/Ethnic Disparity in Health
Chatterji, Pinka; Ho, Chun-Yu; Wu, Xue - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper examines whether loss of locally available hospital-based obstetric services affects racial/ethnic disparities in intrapartum care access and birth outcomes in rural areas of the US. To conduct causal inference, we combine difference-in-difference and propensity score matching methods...
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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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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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What Drives (Gaps in) Scientific Study Participation? Evidence from a COVID-19 Antibody Survey
Dutz, Deniz; Greenstone, Michael; Hortaçsu, Ali; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Underrepresentation of minority and poor households in scientific studies undermines policy decisions and public health. We study data from a serological study that randomized participation incentives. Participation is low (6% at $0, 17% at $100, 29% at $500) and unequal: minority and poor...
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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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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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Social Comparisons and Adolescent Body Misperception : Evidence from School Entry Cutoffs
Carpenter, Christopher; Churchill, Brandyn F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We provide novel evidence on the role of social comparisons in shaping adolescent body misperception. Using an instrumental variables approach leveraging variation in relative age generated by school entry cutoff months and data from the Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children study, we show...
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"There She Is, Your Ideal" Negative Social Comparisons and Health Behaviors
Carpenter, Christopher; Churchill, Brandyn F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We provide novel evidence on the role of negative social comparisons in population health behaviors by exploiting variation in Miss America and Miss USA beauty pageant winners. We show that there was more front-page newspaper coverage and more pageant-related internet search behavior following a...
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