children and infants. A rationale for expansion of smoke-free laws implicitly presumes that potential public health gains from … bans impact the venue of smoking, and the health of children and infants. Using models that exploit state- and county … cost savings of about $71 - $111 million annually. Health improvements among older children add to these economic benefits. …

supply, but very little is known about how the minimum wage affects health, including children's health. We address this … health. Using data on the entire universe of births in the US over 25 years, we find that an increase in the minimum wage is …, which are some channels through which minimum wage can affect infant health. Labor market policies that enhance wages can …

This paper examines the determinants of the health of children ages 6 to 19, as reported in the Child Development … health and the three measures of religion/religiosity. Those children (self-report or primary caregiver report) who have … religious affiliation and those who do not. -- health ; religion ; religiosity ; children ; adolescents …

strong ties across generations. However, health status, arguably a more critical component of welfare, has largely been … ignored. We fill this void by providing the first estimates of the Intergenerational Health Association (IHA) that are …-sectional units. Adjusting for only age and gender, we estimate an IHA of 0.3 indicating that about one third of a parent's health …

birth location in early-life health. Using a model that includes mother and location fixed effects, we find that moving from … remaining 84 percent. Place effects are more influential for children of non-college-educated mothers, and are most strongly … favorably to policies that target maternal health, and could have a small, lasting effect on long-run outcomes …

to provide novel evidence on economic inequality in infant and maternal health. We find that birth outcomes vary non …-monotonically with parental income, and that children of parents in the top ventile of the income distribution have higher rates of low …---have a death rate that is half that of infants of parents in the bottom ventile. When studying maternal health, we find a …

Previous research in the US has found negative health effects of contamination when it triggers regulatory violations …. An important question is whether levels of contamination that do not trigger a health-based violation impact health. We … results data in Pennsylvania. We create an overall water quality index and an index specific to reproductive health. We focus …

This paper examines the determinants of the health of children ages 6 to 19, as reported in the Child Development … health and the three measures of religion/religiosity. Those children (self-report or primary caregiver report) who have … overall health and psychological health of the child. Three measures of religion/religiosity of the child are employed …

This paper presents a model of consumption and household production that takes into account substitution between health …

. For adults, neighborhood environments matter for their health and well-being but have more ambiguous impacts on labor …