This paper shows that an expansion of public health insurance to children from low-income families reduced the probability of those children going to prison as adults.

We show that heritable fertility, despite claims to the contrary from a recent literature inspired by mathematical biology, is not sufficient for positive long-term population growth, for empirical and theoretical reasons.

This paper assesses the impact of in utero and early childhood wildfire exposure on lifelong outcomes, including longevity, disability, human capital accumulation, and economic achievement in mid-to-late adulthood.

Life expectancy in the United States varies widely by geography: The gap between the top and bottom-ranking counties is over twenty years. These disparities, however, are based on where people die. This paper provides the first county-level estimates of life expectancy based on where the deceased were born.

This paper documents several features of the achievement and income gaps between Black and White Americans using linked administrative education and earnings data from the state of the Texas. Among those features: Black students at the 80th percentile of test scores have earnings similar to White students at the 20th percentile of test scores.