Education, Information, and Improved Health: Evidence from Breast Cancer Screening While it is well known that education strongly predicts health, less is known as to why. One reason might be that education improves health-care decision making. In this paper we attempt to disentangle improved decision making from other effects of education, and to quantify how large an impact it has on both a p...

Prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) interventions reduce the cumulative probability of a HIV positive woman transmitting the virus in utero, during childbirth, or through breastfeeding by as much as 50 percentage points. Between 2000 and the end of 2007, the number of health clinics in Zambia offering PMTCT increased from fewer than 6 to nearly 600. This paper examines fertility ...

Maternal Working Hours and the Well-Being of Adolescent Children This study investigates how maternal working hours are related to various outcomes in children aged 11 to 15 using a sample of mothers and adolescents in the British Household Panel Survey. Research that examines the effects of maternal employment on children has been motivated by the rapid increase of female participation rates i...

Critical Periods During Childhood and Adolescence: A Study of Adult Height Among Immigrant Siblings We identify the ages that constitute critical periods in children’s development towards their adult health status. For this we use data on families migrating into Sweden from countries that are mostly poorer, with less healthy conditions. Long-run health is proxied by adult height. The relation b...

Medical marijuana laws generate significant policy debates regarding drug policy. In particular, if marijuana is a complement or a gateway drug to hard drugs, these laws would increase not only the usage of marijuana but hard drugs such as cocaine and heroin. In this paper, I empirically study the relationships between marijuana and cocaine or heroin by analyzing data on drug possession arrests...

This paper investigates implications of introducing immunosuppressants (or suppressants) in kidney exchange problems. We begin with the standard kidney exchange model without suppressants and define two versions of the top-trading cycles (TTC) solutions satisfying Pareto efficiency. We then extend the model by introducing suppressants that make a patient compatible with any donor by relaxing im...

Child Mental Health and Educational Attainment: Multiple Observers and the Measurement Error Problem We examine the effect of survey measurement error on the empirical relationship between child mental health and personal and family characteristics, and between child mental health and educational progress. Our contribution is to use unique UK survey data that contains (potentially biased) asses...

Social Norms and Teenage Smoking: The Dark Side of Gender Equality* This paper is the first to provide evidence that cultural attitudes towards gender equality affect behaviors with potentially devastating health consequences, and that they do so differently for male and female teenagers. In particular, we show that descending from more gender-equal societies makes girls relatively more prone t...

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There is evidence in the economic literature that household income has a positive impact on child’s health. One of the mechanisms through which income can affect health is the affordability of medical care. In this way, public provision of health care might play an important role in the health status of children in poorer household. The goal of this paper is to investigate the impacts of income...