this policy causally reduced injury-induced mortality in the country by at least 14%. We argue that this estimate … constitutes a lower bound on the true impact of alcohol on injury-induced mortality. We also document a sharp drop in violent …

: We find a highly significant negative relationship between case volume and mortality for complex interventions at the …

foster improvements in retirees' health. However, retirement also bears the risk that retirees suffer from the loss of daily … or cause a deterioration of retirees' health, or eventually have no effect on it at all. …

lifetime health effects of the large mid-20th century migration out of rural U.S. Northern Great Plains states, primarily to … positively selected, and (b) the causal impact of migration is decreased longevity. Our evidence suggests that elevated mortality …

consider the effects of immigration on working conditions that affect workers' health. There is growing evidence that … have positive impacts on the health of the native workers. …

that threaten the health of the resident population. In reality, extensive empirical research over several decades and … spent in the host country, however, and immigrants' health status converges toward (or below) that of native residents. …

This paper investigates the mechanisms behind the health effects of retirement. Using a Regression Discontinuity Design … subjective health status and mental health, while also reducing outpatient care utilization. I explore a wide range of health … sleep duration as well as more frequent physical exercise seem to be key mechanisms through which retirement affects health. …

This study investigates the effects of maternal education on child's health and health behavior. We draw on a rich … effects on health behavior for adolescent daughters, but neither for adolescent sons nor for the health status of newborns. We …'s health behavior, assortative mating, household income, and child¿s schooling track as possible channels of the estimated …