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Yes. Not only do I agree with the blue state approaches on smoking and seatbelts. I generally agree with all of the different...

absolutely...ohio thinks it is inappropriate to nag people about smoking and wearing a seatbelt having been ticketed for not wearing a...

This is a study of how outcomes change over time. Racial and ethnic composition does not change much from decade to decade...

from post 8773 House Republicans in April blocked DeWine’s proposal to allow police officers to pull over cars when they see drivers or...

Another interesting paper that looks at international comparisons: https://www.pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.1073/pnas.2024850118 It is widely...

I agree with this final observation by the authors. Red states are not fated to forever fall behind. But it doesn't happen by magic...

Two proponents of the importance of institutions in development have observed that “England in the nineteenth century was . . . a very...

I'm sorry but I don't understand your question.

Is your question whether I believe cigarette taxes reduce smoking?

I hope you find the analysis I shared responsive to your question.

We have documented a sharp increase in state-level disparities in midlife mortality, a result consistent with an emerging...

Here, we simply note two general patterns that emerge. First, consistent with our earlier results on state-level income and mortality...

To explore the plausibility of this explanation, we experimented with regressions with state-level mortality as the dependent variable...

In New York, for example, smoking rates in 1992 were 22.1 percent, about the same as North Dakota (21.9 percent) and only slightly below...

Even so, the health-capital model can help us understand some puzzles in the empirical literature. For example, one type of...