it can explain inequalities in other key economic outcomes using the Health and Retirement Study data set. Our main …We measure health inequality during middle and old age by race, ethnicity, and gender and evaluate the extent to which … measure of health is frailty, which is the fraction of one's possible health deficits and is related to biological age. We …

-imposed lock-downs may not present a clear trade-off between GDP and public health, as commonly believed, even though its immediate …

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 …

An extensive literature has documented racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic disparities in health care and health outcomes … regions where quality levels for all patients, black and white, are lower. Thus ensuring equal access to health care at the … local or hospital level may not by itself erase overall health care disparities. However, reducing geographic disparities in …

counties. Nonetheless, there are no consistent effects of obstetric unit closure on maternal and infant health in the full … is a more consistent pattern of negative effects of closure on infant health. Importantly, the adoption of scope … implications for narrowing racial/ethnic disparities in health in response to obstetric unit closures …

, including investment in health capital. This paper begins to address this gap in knowledge using a large, longitudinal medical … MENA health and outcomes following official US policy and rhetoric is paramount for understanding the full consequences of …

medical preventive measures improve expected health, they do not save money. Various lifestyle and early childhood … interventions, however, may both save money and improve health. Second, preventive measures, including medical and lifestyle …, generalizations in everyday discourse about the value of prevention can be overly broad. Third, health insurance coverage for medical …

drugs, use of other medical services, and health for a nationally representative sample of Medicare beneficiaries. Given the … health. We find that gaining prescription drug insurance through Medicare Part D was associated with a 70% increase in the … health care services or health, as measured by functional status and self-reported health. Among those in poorer health, we …

. In a financial crisis bank health is significantly damaged. Post-crisis regulatory changes have aimed at restoring bank … health, but measuring bank health by Tobin's Q, we find that the ill health of banks in the recent U.S. financial crisis and …