the effect of sports activity on health. OLS models show that sports activity significantly decreases overweight, sleeping … problems, headaches, back problems, and perceived health impediments in everyday activities and significantly increases health … satisfaction. Because sports activity is likely to be misreported and correlated with unobserved determinants of health, we use the …

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 …

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 …

-experimental evidence on the impact of fiscal decentralization on health disparities between- and within-regions. Our findings, robust to a …