mortality and health. Using the gradual phase-in of the reform between 1949 and 1962 across municipalities, we estimate … insignificant effects of the reform on mortality in the affected cohorts. From the confidence intervals we can rule out effects … larger than 1-1.4 months of increased life expectancy. We find no significant impacts on mortality for individuals of low SES …

pandemic influenced health outcomes. We first document large differences in content between the two most popular cable news …

those living under $1 or $2 dollars a day at PPP) and the non poor have different mortality rates in old age. We construct a … adults are significantly more likely to have died five years later if they are poor. The direction of causality is unclear …

development on mortality among adults and the elderly. Our research design exploits the variation in the timing of the deployment … mortality rates. According to our point estimates, a one-percentage point increase in the rate of subscriptions to natural gas … services would lower the overall mortality rate by 1.4 percent, the adult mortality rate by 1.9 percent, and the elderly …

We examine the consequences of childhood health for economic and health outcomes in adulthood, using height as a marker … of health in childhood. After reviewing previous evidence, we present a conceptual framework that highlights data … height and a range of outcomes, including schooling, employment, earnings, health and cognitive ability, using data collected …

not asked how insults to child health after birth affect long-term outcomes, whether health at birth matters primarily … because it predicts future health or through some other mechanism, or whether health insults matter more at some key ages than … at others? We address these questions using a unique data set based on public health insurance records for 50 …

A large literature documents that childhood health shocks have lasting negative consequences for adult outcomes. This …

We examine multi-generational impacts of positive in utero and early life health interventions. We focus on the 1980s …'s health outcomes at birth. We find strong evidence that the health benefits associated with treated generations' in utero … birth weight. Later childhood exposure to Medicaid does not lead to persistent health effects across generations. The return …