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Health and the American Dream
Video · Public lecture, Yale College
Reimagining the American Dream to Resuscitate America's Health
Video · Lecture, St. Olaf College
Continuous Eligibility And Coverage Policies Expanded Children’s Medicaid Enrollment
Research Article · Health Affairs
Missing Americans: Early death in the United States—1933–2021
Research Article · PNAS Nexus
Potential gaps in income support policies for those in poor health: The case of the earned income tax credit-A cross sectional analysis
Research Article · SSM-Population Health
Addressing the American Health Crisis: Investing in Economic Opportunity and Well-Being in our Communities
Video · Laurence E Carroll, MD 2023 Lecture
Fiscal Structures and Economic Mobility in the United States
Video · Princeton Office of Population Research (OPR) Seminar Series
Maternal Mortality and Women's Political Power
Research Article · Journal of the European Economic Association
Women's Fertility and Labor Market Responses to a Health Innovation
Research Article · Journal of the European Economic Association
The Opioid Crisis And the Labor Market
Video · Institute for Research on Poverty (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Association Between Racial Wealth Inequities and Racial Disparities in Longevity Among US Adults and Role of Reparations Payments, 1992 to 2018
Research Article · JAMA Network Open
As Medicaid Continuous Coverage Requirement Ends, Randomized Controlled Trials Can Minimize Churn
Research Article · Health Affairs Forefront
Building Black Wealth — The Role of Health Systems in Closing the Gap
Research Article · New England Journal of Medicine
The economic impact of rural hospital closures
In the Media · Penn Today
Supporting Innovation in Medicaid Policy — Interventions to Increase Adoption of RCTs
Research Article · New England Journal of Medicine
Research Links Investment In Automation To Rising Mortality Rates
News · Forbes
Don’t ignore these 2 things when you’re choosing a nursing home
News · Marketwatch
Resident Mortality And Worker Infection Rates From COVID-19 Lower In Union Than Nonunion US Nursing Homes, 2020–21
Research Article · Health Affairs
Changes in economic outcomes before and after rural hospital closures in the United States: A difference-in-differences study
Research Article · Health Services Research
Economic Opportunity, Public Policy, and Population Health
Video · Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital Global Health Grand Rounds
Robots are killing people, but not the way you think
In the Media · SYFY Wire
Death by Robots? Automation and Working-Age Mortality in the United States
Research Article · Demography
Trade-offs and Policy Options — Using Insights from Economics to Inform Public Health Policy
Research Article · New England Journal of Medicine
Our lab and the COVID-19 pandemic
News
Penn Researchers to Study the Impact of Environmental and Economic Interventions on Reducing Health Disparities in Black Philadelphia Neighborhoods with Nearly $10M Grant
News · Penn Medicine News
Deindustrialization, Mortality, and Fiscal Decline in the U.S.
Podcasts & Audio · WZB - Berlin Social Science Center
In-Person Benefit Reloading Requirements Decreased WIC Participation During the Pandemic
News · Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics Blog Post
Association of Remote vs In-Person Benefit Delivery With WIC Participation During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Research Article · JAMA
Chilling Effects: US Immigration Enforcement And Health Care Seeking Among Hispanic Adults
Research Article · Health Affairs
IAPHS Award Winners, 2021
News · Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science
Assessing Child Abuse Hotline Inquiries in the Wake of COVID-19: Answering the Call
Research Article · JAMA Pediatrics
Member of the Month: Alexander Tsai
News · Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science (IAPHS)
The Rise of Industrial Robots and Increased Overdose and Disability Rates: A Story of Automation and Addiction in the U.S.
Video · Center for Financial Security, University of Wisconsin
Association of WIC Participation and Electronic Benefits Transfer Implementation
Research Article · JAMA Pediatrics
Declining Life Expectancy in the United States: The Need for Social Policy as Health Policy
Research Article · JAMA
The Ties Between Structural Racism, Voting Rights, and Health Equity
Video · Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics
Association between receipt of unemployment insurance and food insecurity among people who lost employment during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
Research Article · JAMA Network Open
Economic Opportunity, Drug Overdose Mortality, and Disability
Research Article · Center for Financial Security, University of Wisconsin, Working Paper
Recessions and Health in the Time of Covid-19
Video · Network of Alberta Health Economists (NOAHE)
Parsing the History and Health Effects of Structural Racism
Video · Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics
The design of a randomized controlled trial to evaluate multi-dimensional effects of a section 1115 Medicaid demonstration waiver with community engagement requirements
Research Article · Contemporary Clinical Trials
Restoring the American Dream will make America healthier
In the Media · The Hill
US elections: treating the acute-on-chronic decompensation
Research Article · The Lancet Public Health
Mortality Rates From COVID-19 Are Lower In Unionized Nursing Homes
Research Article · Health Affairs
Economic influences on population health in the United States: Toward policymaking driven by data and evidence
Research Article · PLOS Medicine
New Ideas, New Horizons
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The $600 unemployment boost has ended. What’s next?
In the Media · CNBC
COVID-19 Is Proof of Just How Socially Determined Health Is
In the Media · VICE
The Income-Based Mortality Gradient Among US Health Care Workers: Cohort Study
Research Article · NCBI
Prioritizing Equity video series: Police Brutality & COVID-19
Video · AMA
Black Men Are at Greater Risk of Police Violence and George Floyd's Killing Is a Symptom of Systematic Racism, Experts Say
In the Media · Newsweek
They’re Working In Healthcare During A Pandemic. They Don’t Get Health Insurance.
In the Media · BuzzFeed News
Association Between State Policies Using Medicaid Exclusions to Sanction Noncompliance With Welfare Work Requirements and Medicaid Participation Among Low-Income Adults
Research Article · JAMA Network Open
Data and Policy Solutions to Address Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the COVID-19 Pandemic
Research Article · JAMA Health Forum
The Intersecting Health Disasters of the Pandemic and Its Economic Meltdown
Video · Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics
Structural racism, economic opportunity, and racial health disparities: Evidence from U.S. counties
Research Article · ScienceDirect
Housing, housing policy, and deaths of despair
Research Article · Health Services Research
The American dream may help the poorest among us live longer. Here’s why
In the Media · Lost Angeles Times
Association of Social Mobility With the Income-Related Longevity Gap in the United States · A Cross-Sectional, County-Level Study
Research Article · JAMA Internal Medicine
Where Auto Plants Close, Opioid Deaths Rise
Podcasts & Audio · Daily Detroit
Study finds correlation between U.S. opioid deaths and auto plant closures
Podcasts & Audio · CBC Radio
Penn study: Counties that lost auto plants suffered spike in opioid overdoses
In the Media · The Philadelphia Inquirer
Association Between Automotive Assembly Plant Closures and Opioid Overdose Mortality in the United States A Difference-in-Differences Analysis
Research Article · JAMA Internal Medicine
Opioid Deaths Rise When Auto Plants Close, Study Shows
In the Media · The New York Times
Stigma as a fundamental hindrance to the United States opioid overdose crisis response
Research Article · PLOS Medicine
Assessment of Medicaid Beneficiaries Included in Community Engagement Requirements in Kentucky
Research Article · JAMA Network Open
College Affirmative Action Bans and Smoking and Alcohol Use Among Underrepresented Minority Adolescents: A Difference-in-Differences Study
Research Article · PLOS Medicine
College affirmative action bans linked to higher rates of smoking among minority youth
In the Media · The Philadelphia Inquirer
Who cares about the health of health care workers?
Podcasts & Audio · American Journal of Public Health Podcast
Economic Vulnerability Among US Female Health Care Workers: Potential Impact of a $15-per-Hour Minimum Wage
Research Article · American Journal of Public Health
Association between access to social service resources and cardiometabolic risk factors: a machine learning and multilevel modeling analysis
Research Article · BMJ Open
Association of Medicaid Healthy Behavior Incentive Programs With Smoking Cessation, Weight Loss, and Annual Preventative Health Visits
Research Article · JAMA Network Open
Prenatal exposure to air pollution and intergenerational economic mobility: Evidence from U.S. county birth cohorts
Research Article · Science Direct
Early Medicaid Expansions and Drug Overdose Mortality in the USA: a Quasi-experimental Analysis
Research Article · Journal of General Internal Medicine
How Police Killings Lead To Poor Mental Health In The Black Community
Podcasts & Audio · NPR
Police killings and their spillover effects on the mental health of black Americans: a population-based, quasi-experimental study
Research Article · The Lancet
Early-life Medicaid Coverage and Intergenerational Economic Mobility
Research Article · Journal of Health and Social Behavior
The Economy and Its Impact on Health
Video · BUSPH and The Lancet Symposium on the Trump Administration and the Health of the Public
Association of Maternal Eligibility for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program With Citizen Children’s Participation in the Women, Infants, and Children Program
Research Article · JAMA Pediatrics
Health Endowment at Birth and Variation in Intergenerational Economic Mobility: Evidence From U.S. County Birth Cohorts
Research Article · Demography
The Public Health Consequences of Rescinding DACA with Atheendar Venkataramani and Alexander Tsai
Podcasts & Audio · Wharton Business Radio Highlights
Dreams Revived? The Public Health Case for DACA
In the Media · Penn LDI Blog
Dreams Deferred — The Public Health Consequences of Rescinding DACA
Research Article · The New England Journal of Medicine
Op-Ed: Trump should consider the health consequences of immigration policy, not just economics
In the Media · STAT
Economic Mobility and the Mortality Crisis Among US Middle-aged Whites
Research Article · Epidemiology
Health consequences of the US Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) immigration programme: a quasi-experimental study
Research Article · The Lancet
Economic opportunity, health behaviours, and health outcomes in the USA: a population-based cross-sectional study
Research Article · The Lancet
"Health and Economic Mobility" Webinar
Video · Institute for Research on Poverty, UW-Madison
Op-Ed: The American Dream and America's Health
In the Media · AJPH Talks
Economic Opportunity, Health Behaviors, and Mortality in the United States
Research Article · American Public Health Association
Shadows of the Captain of the Men of Death: Early Life Health Interventions, Human Capital Investments, and Institutions
Research Article · SSRN
Monetizing illness: The influence of disability assistance priming on how we evaluate the health symptoms of others
Research Article · Social Science and Medicine
Economy and Disability: Labor Market Conditions and the Disability of Working-Age Individuals
Research Article · Social Problems
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