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 …

gas development (commonly known as "fracking"). Colorado provides a unique research environment to study the health …

combine data from the National Health Interview Survey with data from US Environmental Protection Agency's Toxic Release … Inventory, using an instrumental variable approach to control for endogeneity of subjective binary health status. We find that … increases and that work days lost increase at an increasing rate with the decreased health status …

We estimate how acute air pollution exposure from wildfire smoke impacts human health in the U.S., allowing for …. Smaller pollution shocks have outsized health impacts, indicating significant health benefits from improving air quality, even …

Many environmental hazards produce health effects that take years to arise, but quasi-experimental studies typically … accelerated aging effect. We then incorporate our estimates into a flexible health production model to quantify the lifelong … Act's health benefits have yet to emerge for cohorts born after its passage …

decreases, and the two have different implications for human health. An alternative measure for net current biological …

income on infant health. We measure the total amount of pandemic payments received during pregnancy, or the year before birth … economically meaningful effects on infant health. Overall, the findings suggest that income transfers during pregnancy will have … little effect on socioeconomic disparities in infant health …

We use census data at the U.S. county-level to provide causal evidence of health benefits of COVID-19 vaccines. Using …