The 21st century has been a period of rising inequality in both income and health. In this study, we find that … the largest health gains during the last several decades. Nor was higher dispersion in mortality caused entirely by the … that high-income states in 1992 were better able to enact public health strategies and adopt behaviors that, over the next …

The goal of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was to achieve nearly universal health insurance coverage through a … Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System to examine the impacts of the ACA on health care access, risky health behaviors, and … self-assessed health after two years. We estimate difference-in-difference-in-differences models that exploit variation in …

This paper looks at the links between health and socio-economic status. It is generally assumed by non-economists that … it is low SES that causes ill health, but this paper asks whether the causation might also work the other way. Even if … the direction of causation is that SES mainly affects health, what dimensions of SES actually matter — the financial …

In the health, safety, and environmental area, negotiated rulemaking, implementation, and compliance are proposed by … United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). Four negotiated rulemakings under the Occupational Safety … and Health Act -- each of which involved an attempt to establish an OSHA standard for worker exposure to a particular …

This paper exploits a new source of variation in Head Start funding to identify the program's effects on health and …

This paper examines the determinants of the health of children ages 6 to 19, as reported in the Child Development … overall health and psychological health of the child. Three measures of religion/religiosity of the child are employed … health and the three measures of religion/religiosity. Those children (self-report or primary caregiver report) who have …

This paper constructs a dynamic model of health insurance to evaluate the short- and long run effects of policies that … prevent firms from conditioning wages on health conditions of their workers, and that prevent health insurance companies from … charging individuals with adverse health conditions higher insurance premia. Our study is motivated by recent US legislation …

fill this gap by examining the impact of child care subsidy receipt on maternal health and the quality of child … care subsidies are associated with worse maternal health and poorer interactions between parents and their children. In … particular, subsidized mothers report lower levels of overall health and are more likely to show symptoms consistent with anxiety …