The public economic burden of shifting trends in population health remains uncertain. Sustained increases in obesity, diabetes, and other diseases could reduce life expectancy - with a concomitant dec
Replication materials for the paper "On the Value of Birth Weight" (Clarke, Oreffice & Quintana-Domeque, 2021), published in the Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics.
Although health is conventionally believed to deteriorate during macroeconomic downturns, the empirical evidence supporting this view is quite weak and comes from studies containing methodological sho
