The severity, sudden onset, and multipronged nature of the Great Recession (2007–2009)
provided a unique opportunity to examine the health impacts of macroeconomic downturn …

The existing evidence linking recessions to individual and population health presents a
puzzle. Some studies show that people who experience the kinds of labor market, housing …

We examine how deaths and emergency department (ED) visits related to use of opioid
analgesics (opioids) and other drugs vary with macroeconomic conditions. As the county …

Abstract Over the 1976–2010 period, total mortality shifted from strongly procyclical to being
weakly or unrelated to macroeconomic conditions. The association is likely to be poorly …

The first major insurance expansion of the Affordable Care Act–a provision requiring
insurers to allow dependents to remain on parents' health insurance until turning 26–took …

Aim Concurrently with increasingly permissive attitudes towards marijuana use and its
legalization, the prevalence of marijuana use has increased in recent years in the US …

We provide the first analysis of the relationship between economic conditions and the use of
illicit drugs other than marijuana. Drawing on US data from 2002 to 2015, we find mixed …

We study the effect of two local immigration enforcement policies—Section 287 (g) of the
Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act and the Secure Communities …

This analysis summarizes prior research and uses national, US state and county‐level data
from 1976 to 2013 to examine whether the mortality effects of economic crises differ in kind …

We examine the relationship between income and health with the purpose of establishing
the extent to which the distribution of health in a population contributes to income inequality …