The opioid crisis generates broader societal harms beyond direct health and economic effects, impacting non … aimed at reducing the over-prescribing of opioids on women's wellbeing by examining its effects on intimate partner violence … generated a downstream benefit for women by significantly reducing their overall exposure to IPV and IPV-involved injuries by 9 …

-term outcomes, including lifetime income, health, cognitive skills, and education. Our results show that the school lunch program … attainment and health and these effects can explain a large part of the return to school lunches. …

-2014, this paper examines the impact of RASKIN on children's health status. Using the difference-in-difference estimator, we find … that children from the households that are beneficiaries of the RASKIN program show improved health status as measured by … various anthropometric measures. We further investigate the long-run gains from RASKIN by tracing the health status of …

nearly two decades. Women in program villages also experienced other benefits: lower child mortality, improved health status …The paper analyzes the impact of an experimental maternal and child health and family-planning program that was …, and greater use of preventive health inputs. Some benefits also diffused beyond the boundaries of the program villages …

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 …

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

Firearm violence is a pervasive public health crisis in the United States, with significant numbers of homicides … consequences of stress induced by these attacks on newborn health. We use two approaches to examine this question. First, we … exposed. Second, we investigate the impact of in-utero exposure to mass shootings on infant health outcomes using restricted …