Purpose of Review “I can't breathe” were the last words spoken by Eric Garner (July 17,
2014), Javier Ambler (March 28, 2019), Elijah McClain (August 30, 2019), Manuel Ellis …

How does one's place of residence affect individual behavior and long-run outcomes?
Understanding neighborhood and place effects has been a leading question for social …

This paper estimates the long-run effects of childhood Medicaid eligibility on adult health
and economic outcomes using the program's original introduction (1966–1970) and its …

Background Migration health research pays little attention to the places into which people
migrate. Studies on health effects of contextual factors are often limited because of the ability …

This paper shows that racial composition shocks during the Great Migration (1940–1970)
reduced the gains from growing up in the northern United States for Black families and can …

Abstract For 40 years, the Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male passively
monitored hundreds of adult black men with syphilis despite the availability of effective …

Currently 2.5 million Syrians fleeing war have found refuge in Turkey, making it the largest
refugee-hosting country worldwide. This paper combines newly available data on the …

We use administrative records on the incomes of more than 40 million children and their
parents to describe three features of intergenerational mobility in the United States. First, we …

We use novel, large-scale data on 17.5 million Americans to study how a policy-driven
increase in economic resources affects children's long-term outcomes. Using the 2000 …

Life expectancy varies substantially across local regions within a country, raising
conjectures that place of residence affects health. However, population sorting and other …