Widening economic inequality in the USA has been accompanied by increasing disparities
in health outcomes. The life expectancy of the wealthiest Americans now exceeds that of the …

Income inequality in the USA has increased over the past four decades. Socioeconomic
gaps in survival have also increased. Life expectancy has risen among middle-income and …

This paper estimates the long-run effects of childhood Medicaid eligibility on adult health
and economic outcomes using the program's original introduction (1966–1970) and its …

It is widely recognized that the 12 percent of all youth in American public schools who have
disabilities comprise a set of students with distinct capacities and needs. Federal legislation …

This paper estimates the effects on rural education of the send-down movement during the
Cultural Revolution, when about 16 million urban youth were mandated to resettle in the …

This chapter seeks to set out what economists have learned about the effects of early
childhood influences on later life outcomes, and about ameliorating the effects of negative …

We use administrative data on Swedish lottery players to estimate the causal impact of
substantial wealth shocks on players' own health and their children's health and …

This paper investigates the intergenerational effects of maternal education on child health in
68 developing countries across five continents over nearly three decades. Exploiting the …

The first part of the lecture will review some of the evidence about the determinants of health
at birth. I argue that individuals may start with very different endowments at birth because of …

Afghanistan remains in the bottom 10 percent globally in electricity consumption per capita
(~ 100 kWh per year) and only 25-30 percent of its population is connected to the grid, one …