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View article: Local government expenditure centralization and spatial variation in working-age mortality
Local government expenditure centralization and spatial variation in working-age mortality Open
Research finds disparities in local government spending to be one driver of place-based variation in population health outcomes in the U.S. This study asks: net of the amount of local government spending, does the centralization of local g…
View article: Fiscal Centralization and Inequality in Children’s Economic Mobility
Fiscal Centralization and Inequality in Children’s Economic Mobility Open
Disparities in state and local government spending are key drivers of spatial inequality in social outcomes, including economic mobility. Yet beyond spending levels, the fiscal centralization of state and local governments—that is, the rel…
View article: Has the opening of Amazon fulfillment centers affected demand for disability insurance?
Has the opening of Amazon fulfillment centers affected demand for disability insurance? Open
An estimated 17.6% of blue-collar, manufacturing jobs were lost in the United States between 1970 and 2016. These jobs, often union-represented, provided relatively generous pay and benefits, creating a path to the middle class for individ…
View article: Fiscal Impoverishment in Rich Democracies
Fiscal Impoverishment in Rich Democracies Open
This article introduces fiscal impoverishment as a framework for comparative poverty research. We invert standard analyses of welfare state policy and household poverty by focusing not on poverty alleviation but poverty creation and exacer…
View article: Administrative Burdens and Economic Insecurity Among Black, Latino, and White Families
Administrative Burdens and Economic Insecurity Among Black, Latino, and White Families Open
This study investigates how administrative burdens influence differential receipt of income transfers after a family member loses a job. Using the panel component of the Current Population Survey from 1990 through 2019, we find that admini…
View article: Death by Robots? Automation and Working-Age Mortality in the United States
Death by Robots? Automation and Working-Age Mortality in the United States Open
The decline of manufacturing employment is frequently invoked as a key cause of worsening U.S. population health trends, including rising mortality due to “deaths of despair.” Increasing automation—the use of industrial robots to perform t…
View article: Death by Robots? Automation and Working-Age Mortality in the United States
Death by Robots? Automation and Working-Age Mortality in the United States Open
The decline of manufacturing employment is frequently invoked as a key cause of worsening U.S. population health trends, including rising mortality due to ‘deaths of despair’. Increasing automation—the use of industrial robots to perform t…
View article: S-243 Death by Robots? Automation and Working-Age Mortality in the United States
S-243 Death by Robots? Automation and Working-Age Mortality in the United States Open
The decline of manufacturing employment is frequently invoked as a key cause of worsening U.S. population health trends, including increased mortality due to rising 'deaths of despair'. Increasing automation—the use of industrial robots t…
View article: Robots Don't Pay Taxes: Deindustrialization and Fiscal Decline
Robots Don't Pay Taxes: Deindustrialization and Fiscal Decline Open
Deindustrialization has fundamentally reshaped the economic geography of the United States. Between 1993 and 2007 alone, increasing automation—the use of industrial robots to perform tasks done by human workers—led to the loss of upwards o…
View article: Economic influences on population health in the United States: Toward policymaking driven by data and evidence
Economic influences on population health in the United States: Toward policymaking driven by data and evidence Open
Atheendar S. Venkataramani and colleagues discuss economic factors and population health in the United States.
View article: Association Between Automotive Assembly Plant Closures and Opioid Overdose Mortality in the United States
Association Between Automotive Assembly Plant Closures and Opioid Overdose Mortality in the United States Open
From 1999 to 2016, automotive assembly plant closures were associated with increases in opioid overdose mortality. These findings highlight the potential importance of eroding economic opportunity as a factor in the US opioid overdose cris…
View article: Replication data for: "Does Knowing your FICO Score Change Financial Behavior?"
Replication data for: "Does Knowing your FICO Score Change Financial Behavior?" Open
Homonoff, Tatiana, O'Brien, Rourke, and Sussman, Abigail B., (2021) “Does Knowing Your FICO Score Change Financial Behavior? Evidence from a Field Experiment with Student Loan Borrowers.” Review of Economics and Statistics 103:2, 236–250.
View article: College affirmative action bans and smoking and alcohol use among underrepresented minority adolescents in the United States: A difference-in-differences study
College affirmative action bans and smoking and alcohol use among underrepresented minority adolescents in the United States: A difference-in-differences study Open
In this study, we found evidence that some health risk behaviors increased among underrepresented minority adolescents after exposure to state-level college affirmative action bans. These findings suggest that social policies that shift so…
View article: Affirmative Action Bans and Health Risk Behaviors
Affirmative Action Bans and Health Risk Behaviors Open
College affirmative action bans were associated with higher rates of smoking and drinking in underrepresented minority 11th and 12th graders, and these students continued to smoke at higher rates into young adulthood. Policymakers should c…
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View article: Early-life Medicaid Coverage and Intergenerational Economic Mobility
Early-life Medicaid Coverage and Intergenerational Economic Mobility Open
New data reveal significant variation in economic mobility outcomes across U.S. localities. This suggests that social structures, institutions, and public policies—particularly those that influence critical early-life environments—play an …
View article: Health Endowment at Birth and Variation in Intergenerational Economic Mobility: Evidence From U.S. County Birth Cohorts
Health Endowment at Birth and Variation in Intergenerational Economic Mobility: Evidence From U.S. County Birth Cohorts Open
New estimates of intergenerational economic mobility reveal substantial variation in the spatial distribution of opportunity in the United States. Efforts to explain this variation in economic mobility have conspicuously omitted health des…
View article: Disparate Impact? Race, Sex, and Credit Reports in Hiring
Disparate Impact? Race, Sex, and Credit Reports in Hiring Open
Half of U.S. employers consider credit history when deciding whom to hire. The practice has become a contentious policy issue, with multiple jurisdictions limiting the use of credit reports in employment. Yet to date, there has been no tes…
View article: Health consequences of the US Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) immigration programme: a quasi-experimental study
Health consequences of the US Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) immigration programme: a quasi-experimental study Open
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View article: Paternal Incarceration and Teachers’ Expectations of Students
Paternal Incarceration and Teachers’ Expectations of Students Open
In the past 40 years, paternal imprisonment has been transformed from an event affecting only the most unfortunate children to one that one in four African American children experience. Although research speculates that the stigma, strain,…
View article: Redistribution and the New Fiscal Sociology: Race and the Progressivity of State and Local Taxes
Redistribution and the New Fiscal Sociology: Race and the Progressivity of State and Local Taxes Open
States redistribute wealth through two mechanisms: spending and taxation. Yet studies of the social determinants of redistribution typically focus exclusively on government spending. This article explores how one determinant of social spen…