decreases, and the two have different implications for human health. An alternative measure for net current biological … the South had higher 19th century disease rates, it had better net nutritional conditions. …

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 …

primarily the symptom of real declines in the health of near-elderly Americans, relative to their European peers. In particular …, we use a microsimulation approach to project what US longevity would look like, if US health trends approximated those in … Europe. We find that differences in health can explain most of the growing gap in remaining life expectancy. In addition, we …

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 …

and birth outcomes in forecasting child health (as indicated by height and weight), child behavioral problems, and a child …

Policy makers responding to COVID-19 need to know people's relative valuation of health over wealth. Loosening and … tightening lockdowns moves a society along a (perceived) health-wealth trade-off and the associated changes have to accord with … the public's relative valuation of health and wealth for maximum compliance. In our survey experiment (N=4,618), we …