This paper extends the earlier work of Davillas and Jones (2021) on socioeconomic inequality in mental health, measured … by the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ), to include the second national lockdown up to March 2021. …

Evidence for the short-term impact of early intervention on childhood health is weak and inconsistent. Using rigorous … programme on child health. The treatment provides mentoring visits from pregnancy until school entry to improve child outcomes … through positively affecting parenting. In a context where socioeconomic inequalities in health have yet to emerge, modest …

The relationship between recessions and health is mixed, with some evidence from the most recent financial crisis … the Irish crisis of 2008, to test the impact of economic expansion and contraction on mothers physical and mental health … and health behaviours. Three waves of data from the Irish Lifeways Cohort Study for the period 2001-2011, and local area …

This paper examines the effects of high school curriculum reforms on infant health by exploiting sharp and staggered … small and generally insignificant. Improvements in maternal health behaviors and family income appear to explain a non …-negligible fraction of the observed effects. Finally, we calculate a large social gain induced by favorable infant health outcomes …

We estimate the effects of permanent legal status on the health of children born to immigrants in the United States … using variation from the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA). Our empirical approach compares trends in birth …