We estimate the effects of permanent legal status on the health of children born to immigrants in the United States using variation from the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA). Our empirical approach compares trends in birth outcomes for foreign-born Mexican mothers across...

Using variation in the coverage of gender-affirming care under Medicaid, we pro- vide the first evidence of increasing access to gender-affirming care on the mental health of transgender people. We use data from the 2014-2020 Behavioral Risk Factors Surveillance Systems paired with a...

This paper examines the relationship between social transitions, mental health, and family support among transgender youth using data from the United States Transgender Survey. We use retrospective panel data to compare changes in mental health among transgender youth who initiate social...

This study uses the 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey to test how hormone replacement therapy (HRT) initiation affects the risk of attempting suicide among transgender individuals. We construct a retrospective panel of transgender people and employ a stacked event study design. Our results indicate...

Individuals of Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) ancestry in the US have been targeted by anti-immigrant and counterterrorism policies and have been the focus of vitriolic political rhetoric. Despite this, lack of data identifying MENA individuals has prevented systematic evaluation of the...

We investigate the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on self-employed people's mental health. Using representative longitudinal survey data from Germany, we reveal differential effects by gender: whereas self-employed women experienced a substantial deterioration in their mental health,...

We investigate the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on self-employed people’s mental health. Using representative longitudinal survey data from Germany, we reveal differential effects by gender: whereas self-employed women experienced a substantial...

This report, based primarily on open-ended interviews with 40 people living in Essex affected by the 2012 UK Welfare Reform Act, analyses the financial, subjective and social effects of Welfare Reform on those participants. Almost all participants were affected by having to pay the Spare Room...

Better access to reproductive healthcare increases women's propensity to become entrepreneurs. Access correlates positively with female entrepreneurial activity and negatively with female entrepreneurial age. Examining firm size and personal income suggests it also improves success of female-led...