Despite plausible mechanisms, little research has evaluated potential changes in health behaviors as a result of the … health behaviors for pregnant women, which is a group of particular interest given evidence of the importance of prenatal … health to later life outcomes. We exploit exogenous variation from the Medicaid income eligibility expansions for pregnant …

Hurricane Katrina on the mortality of elderly and disabled residents of New Orleans. The authors concluded that Hurricane … decline in mortality was due to declines in mortality among those who moved to places with lower mortality. In this article, I … fact that residents in New Orleans are likely to be selected non-randomly on the basis of health because of the relatively …

effect on health is incomplete. In this study, we provide a unique set of facts about racial disparities in mortality that … all theories of racism and health need to confront to be convincing. We measure racial disparities in mortality between …Racial differences in mortality are large, persistent and likely caused, at least in part, by racism. While the causal …

Despite plausible mechanisms, little research has evaluated potential changes in health behaviors as a result of the … health behaviors for pregnant women, which is a group of particular interest given evidence of the importance of prenatal … health to later life outcomes. We exploit exogenous variation from the Medicaid income eligibility expansions for pregnant …

Despite plausible mechanisms, little research has evaluated potential changes in health behaviors as a result of the … health behaviors for pregnant women, which is a group of particular interest given evidence of the importance of prenatal … health to later life outcomes. We exploit exogenous variation from the Medicaid income eligibility expansions for pregnant …

The contribution of cigarette smoking to national health expenditures is thought to be large, but our current … model of smoking and medical care use that highlights two forms of selection: selective mortality and non-random cessation … smokers from merged National Health Interview Survey and Medicare claims information. Consistent with our theory, we find that …

. Our findings suggest that the ACA Medicaid expansions had important financial impacts beyond health care use. …