fatalities in the United States, with starkly different incidence by race and ethnicity. Our study examines racial and ethnic … modes; health care access; long-run opportunity, as measured by income mobility and incarceration rates; human mobility; and … underlying population health. We find that the proportions of black and Hispanic residents in a ZIP code are both positively and …

An extensive literature has documented racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic disparities in health care and health outcomes … regions where quality levels for all patients, black and white, are lower. Thus ensuring equal access to health care at the … local or hospital level may not by itself erase overall health care disparities. However, reducing geographic disparities in …

An extensive literature has documented racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic disparities in health care and health outcomes … regions where quality levels for all patients, black and white, are lower. Thus ensuring equal access to health care at the … local or hospital level may not by itself erase overall health care disparities. However, reducing geographic disparities in …

Using a novel dataset provided by the Connecticut Department of Health (CTDoH), this manuscript shows the necessity for …

other variables, like health variables, are inconclusive. Our objective in this paper is to analyse the health convergence … the explanatory variables of health convergence as well as the unobserved spatiotemporal extra-variability. Our results … indicate that, in terms of health, although there was a catching-up process between the EU-27 regions between 1995 and 2009 …

We use the NLSY79 to produce the first estimates of intergenerational mobility in the U.S. by both region and race …/ethnicity. We show that gaps in intergenerational mobility by race are significantly larger than those by region. In particular … that these can explain much of the gaps by race/ethnicity …