BACKGROUND Depression and anxiety disorders are together responsible for 8% of years
lived with disability globally. Contrary to widely held preconceptions, these are not diseases …

We provide quasi-experimental estimates of the impact of social media on mental health by
leveraging a unique natural experiment: the staggered introduction of Facebook across US …

This paper combines novel data on the time use, home‐learning practices and economic
circumstances of families with children during the COVID‐19 lockdown with pre‐lockdown …

That prenatal events can have life-long consequences is now well established.
Nevertheless, research on the fetal origins hypothesis is flourishing and has expanded to …

Adverse environmental exposures—war and violence, natural disasters, escalating heat,
worsening air quality—experienced in pregnancy are consequential for multiple domains of …

Boys born to disadvantaged families have higher rates of disciplinary problems, lower
achievement scores, and fewer high school completions than girls from comparable …

We use novel, large-scale data on 17.5 million Americans to study how a policy-driven
increase in economic resources affects children's long-term outcomes. Using the 2000 …

The Economics of Health and Health Care is the market-leading health economics textbook,
providing comprehensive coverage of all the key topics, and balancing economic theory …

We evaluate the medium-term impacts of treating maternal depression on women's mental
health, financial empowerment, and parenting decisions. We leverage variation induced by …

We analyze the role of education as a determinant of mental health. To do this, we leverage
the age‐specific exposure to an educational reform as an instrument for years of education …