, including investment in health capital. This paper begins to address this gap in knowledge using a large, longitudinal medical … policies and anti-MENA rhetoric on preventive care use among MENA children in the US. Specifically, we evaluate the election of … Donald Trump, and find that the election decreased MENA children's utilization of vaccinations and well visits. Documenting …

data on the universe of Danish children and their healthcare providers, we first construct and validate a measure of …

expressing health care-seeking behavior as a function of economic and behavioral fundamentals and highlighting the role of trust …. We report several findings. First, we document a strong association between higher levels of trust in the health care … scenarios, from routine check-ups to vaccinations. Second, the impact of trust on health care utilization is similar in …

We estimate the effects of permanent legal status on the health of children born to immigrants in the United States …

We revisit the cyclical nature of birth rates and infant health and investigate to what extent the relationship between … provide novel evidence that infant health is countercyclical based on timing of conception, but procyclical based on time in … utero. The negative relationship between the in utero aggregate unemployment rate and infant health also disappears when …

gas development (commonly known as "fracking"). Colorado provides a unique research environment to study the health …

U.S., their roles in shaping population health and health disparities remain largely unknown. We examine the impacts of … by which sentencing policies can affect population health. We provide suggestive evidence that three strikes policies … further interrogate state criminal legal system policies for their impacts on population health, considering whether, how, and …

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 …, led to significant terror and disruptions in daily life over a three-week period. We compare birth outcomes of children …

We study the intergenerational health consequences of forced displacement and incarceration of Japanese Americans in … the US during WWII. Incarcerated mothers had babies who were less healthy at birth. This decrease in health represents a … have children with fathers of other ethnic groups but were more likely to receive prenatal care, invest in education, and …

In 2007, approximately one in five children in Zambia lived with an HIV positive adult. We identify the effect of adult … antiretroviral therapy (ART) availability at scale on children's educational outcomes by combining data on the expansion of ART … the availability of ART increased the likelihood that children in households with HIV positive household heads started …