Executive summary Despite dramatic improvements in survival, nutrition, and education over
recent decades, today's children face an uncertain future. Climate change, ecological …

This article reviews the global health and economic consequences of the 1918 influenza
pandemic, with a particular focus on topics that have seen a renewed interest because of …

This paper synthesizes what economists have learned about human capital since Becker
(1962) into four stylized facts. First, human capital explains at least one-third of the variation …

Governments around the world are responding to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
pandemic, caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), with …

We use admissions lotteries to estimate the effects of large-scale public preschool in Boston
on college-going, college preparation, standardized test scores, and behavioral outcomes …

" Across diverse disciplines, the term resilience is appearing more and more often. However,
while each discipline has developed theory and models to explain the resilience of the …

We build on and extend the findings in Case and Deaton (2015) on increases in mortality
and morbidity among white non-Hispanic Americans in midlife since the turn of the century …

We discuss the potential role of universal basic incomes (UBIs) in advanced countries. A
feature of advanced economies that distinguishes them from developing countries is the …

Economic research on the safety net has evolved over time, moving away from a focus on
the negative incentive effects of means-tested assistance on employment, earnings …

Research on maternal-fetal epigenetic programming argues that adverse exposures to the
intrauterine environment can have long-term effects on adult morbidity and mortality …