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All told, there is strong empirical support for the notion that specific healthrelated policies and behaviors differ across states, and...

Other health programs targeting low-income populations matter for the evolution of long-term health, too. Using variation in the opening...

Even more important for the time period we study, the implementation of Medicaid and its later expansions to pregnant low-income women...

The hypothesis that investments related to Medicaid matter for the evolution of mortality has empirical support. Several authors...

https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/jep.35.4.123?itid=lk_inline_enhanced-template To explain why state differences in mortality...

when Canada gives very sick people the right to choose a dignified death it is tyranny when red states refuse to take sensible measures...

The differences in state policies directly correlate to those years lost, said Jennifer Karas Montez, director of the Center for Aging...

that's exactly right...the NY approach is more paternalistic and the Ohio approach is more libertarian your preference for the Ohio...

but income differences HAVE been growing between blue and red states and do probably account for some of the relative outperformance of...

income differences is a variable that is controlled for by selecting a group of counties that are similar in demographic and...

Just to cite one small example. There was a study a few years ago of the counties where Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York meet...

He did business with Epstein after his incarceration. Maybe a case can be made that this reduced the risk of recidivism.

The reason he can't be fired for his association with Epstein is because his boss had a much longer and more problematic association.

Meanwhile back at various red states, life expectancy continues to fall further and further behind Canada and blue states. Should there...

Thanks for sharing them. It isn't an easy issue and any abuses/deficiencies should be scrutinized.