We study the causes of “nutritional inequality”: why the wealthy eat more healthfully than the
poor in the United States. Exploiting supermarket entry and household moves to healthier …

Overdose deaths involving opioids have increased dramatically since the 1990s, leading to
the worst drug overdose epidemic in US history, but there is limited empirical evidence …

The twenty-first century has been a period of rising inequality in both income and health. In
this paper, we find that geographic inequality in mortality for midlife Americans increased by …

The areas most affected by the opioid crisis have witnessed deteriorating economic
conditions, although it is unclear if this represents a causal relationship. I provide new …

We use practice variation across physicians to uncover the role of medical care in causing
opioid dependence. Using health records of 2 million US veterans with emergency …

This paper quantifies the relationship between local opioid prescription rates and labor
market outcomes in the United States between 2006 and 2016. To understand this …

We use credit report data to study consumer financial distress in America. We report large,
persistent disparities in financial distress across regions. To understand these patterns, we …

This paper studies the origins and consequences of the opioid epidemic. Drawing on
unsealed records from state litigation against Purdue Pharma, we exploit detailed features of …

The opioid crisis in the United States has resulted in a dramatic increase in overdose deaths
over the last two decades. This crisis has created an economic ripple affecting an important …

This paper examines the impact of the opioid epidemic on the financing costs of local
governments. We find that a higher county-level drug overdose death rate raises offering …