informative above and beyond current knowledge or expectations. We examine these properties for existing genetic measures related … to ADRD in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). We replicate existing relationships between genetic factors and … cognitive health. We also show that higher genetic risk is associated with worse economic outcomes on several dimensions …

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 …

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

-life health find inconclusive and mixed results. This paper re-evaluates this literature and studies the long-term effects of in … education. We also provide suggestive evidence that reductions in adulthood income are a likely mechanism channel …

preventive care and the implications for patient outcomes. We use unique data from the Military Health System, where we observe … have the most direct and important impact on health. We find striking evidence that racial concordance leads to improved … maintenance of preventive care - and ultimately lower patient mortality. Pooling across these diseases, we estimate that a one …

A growing literature uses now widely-available data on beliefs and expectations in the estimation of structural models … show how expectations data have been used to relax strong assumptions about beliefs and outline how they can be used in … of expectations data in the estimation of structural models. We conclude by noting directions for future research …

otherwise well-informed about inflation and asset returns. Consequently, whereas exogenous shifts in inflation expectations do … not impact return expectations, information on past returns during periods of high inflation leads to negative updating … about the perceived stock-return impact of inflation, which feeds into return expectations and subsequent actual trading …