implying that in the past health inequality was transmitted across generations. I also show that" children born at the … neonatal death rates because obstetrical and" medical knowledge was poorer. In addition, by day ten children in the past were … at a" disadvantage relative to children today because best practice resulted in insufficient feeding. The" poor average …

. For adults, neighborhood environments matter for their health and well-being but have more ambiguous impacts on labor …

pain in mid-life (age 44) on health, wellbeing and labor market outcomes in later life. We examine data taken at age 50 in … chronic pain at age 44 continue to report pain and poor general health in their 50s. However, the associations are much … stronger for those with chronic pain. Furthermore, chronic pain at age 44 is associated with a range of poor mental health …

We studied the effect of marijuana liberalization policies on perinatal health with a multiperiod difference … health. MMLs had no significant effect on maternal substance use disorder hospitalizations nor on newborn health and fairly …

. We quantify the effect of the CWA on a direct measure of health and incorporate health benefits into a cost …-benefit analysis. Using a difference-in-differences framework, we compare health upstream and downstream from wastewater treatment … weight by 8 grams. A back-of-the-envelope calculation bounds infant health benefits below $29 billion …

Introduced as part of the War on Poverty, Community Health Centers (CHCs) deliver primary care to underserved … health using the rollout of CHCs and a flexible event study framework with Vital Statistics natality data. Our results show … residence. These improvements in infant health can be explained by increased access to early prenatal care and reductions in …

unexplored margin: how children's programs impact parents' well-being. We explore changes in children's public health insurance …A rich literature documents the benefits of social safety net programs for children. This paper focuses on an … expansions in the 1980s and 1990s, we isolate variation in children's Medicaid eligibility due to changes in government policies …

Whether and how a paternal health shock cascades across multiple generations to affect descendant health is … understudied even though a link between ancestral living conditions and descendant health may constitute an important source of … differences in the stock of health capital across families and thus across ethnic, racial and social groups. I study how a …

poor health of young slave children. The sources of deprivation can be traced to the fetal period. The slave work routine …

The focus of this paper is on functional health status of children in the population. More specifically, we examine a … single aspect of functional health status -- intellectual development of children. In a multivariate context, we examine the … relationships between the health indexes and cognitive development of children from six to 11 years of age in Cycle II of the U …