Universal Access to Counsel, Housing Court Filings, and Child Mental Health: Evidence from New York City

By Mike Cassidy, Janet Currie, Sherry Glied, and Renata E. Howland

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2025

We link data from Medicaid to housing court records to study the relationship between housing instability and children's mental health. Of Medicaid children aged 4–17 in New York City, 14 percent faced housing court from 2016–2019. Using rollout of un...

Labor Market Attachment and Perceived Barriers to Work among Homeless Families

By Nour Abdul-Razzak, John Eric Humphries, Stephen Stapleton, and Winnie van Dijk

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2025

We study labor market attachment among homeless families using baseline survey data from a large-scale study in Illinois. Of homeless parents, 40 percent worked in the past month. Among those not working, most report wanting and actively searching for a j...

Home-Country Internet and Immigrants' Well-Being

By Alexander Yarkin

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2025

This paper documents the effects of home-country internet expansion on immigrants' health and subjective well-being (SWB). Combining data from the European Social Survey with data on 3G and overall internet expansion, I find that immigrants' SWB increases...

Targeted Treatment Assignment Using Data from Randomized Experiments with Noncompliance

By Susan Athey, Kosuke Inoue, and Yusuke Tsugawa

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2025

This paper considers randomized experiments with noncompliance where individuals in the treatment group become eligible for a treatment but some do not receive it. We study the estimation and evaluation of treatment assignment policies targeted to individ...

Instrumental Variables Methods Reveal Larger Effects of Menopausal Hormone Therapy in the Landmark Women's Health Initiative Clinical Trial

By Joshua Angrist, Amanda E. Kowalski, Ljubica Ristovska, and Marcia L. Stefanick

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2025

Landmark results from the Women's Health Initiative trial showed that random assignment to menopausal hormone therapy (MHT) elevated risks of breast cancer and other adverse events. Recent analyses argue that MHT risks are small. These analyses report int...

Cross-Policy Effects: Lockdown Stringency, Race, and the COVID-19 Vaccine in US Nursing Homes

By Roland Pongou, Ghislain Junior Sidie, Guy Tchuente, and Jean-Baptiste Tondji

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2025

In a health crisis, how do early mitigation policies affect the effectiveness of later interventions? Using the lens of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, we show that the stringency of early public health and safety interventions increased vacci...

Long-Run Intergenerational Impact of Abortion Legalization in the United States

By Sherajum Monira Farin

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2025

In this study, I analyze how children conceived under legal abortion fare in life, particularly in terms of life term health. I leverage the state-level variation in changes to abortion laws predating Roe v. Wade and the changes brought about by

Breadwinning, Social Security, and Retirement Patterns among Couples

By Siha Lee and Zhixiu Yu

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2025

This paper examines how married couples' retirement behavior varies by wives' earnings contributions. Using data from the Health and Retirement Study linked to administrative Social Security records, we find that breadwinner wives are more likely to delay...

Challenges For Healthcare

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Health Insurance and Government Mandates: A Session to Honor Amy Finkelstein, John Bates Clark Medalist for 2012

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Health Economics - Part 7

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Health Economics - Part 6

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Health Economics - Part 5

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Health Economics - Part 4

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Health Economics - Part 3

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Health Economics - Part 2

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Health Economics - Part 1

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The Economic Impact of Access to Reproductive Health Services

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Health Economics - Part 9

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Health Economics - Part 8

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