BACKGROUND Depression and anxiety disorders are together responsible for 8% of years
lived with disability globally. Contrary to widely held preconceptions, these are not diseases …

Program evaluation methods are widely applied in economics to assess the effects of policy
interventions and other treatments of interest. In this article, we describe the main …

More than two million US households have an eviction case filed against them each year.
Policy makers at the federal, state, and local levels are increasingly pursuing policies to …

We conduct a comparative welfare analysis of 133 historical policy changes over the past
half-century in the United States, focusing on policies in social insurance, education and job …

This article proposes contemporary best-practice recommendations for stated preference
(SP) studies used to inform decision making, grounded in the accumulated body of peer …

Diet is the only known intervention which has been conclusively shown to extend life span. It
can be argued the key role diet has to play in the aging process came to prominence as a …

We use a randomized controlled trial to study the response of poor households in rural
Kenya to unconditional cash transfers from the NGO GiveDirectly. The transfers differ from …

Importance Medical debt is an increasing concern in the US, yet there is limited
understanding of the amount and distribution of medical debt, and its association with health …

Health Insurance Coverage and Health — What the Recent Evidence Tells Us | New England
Journal of Medicine Skip to main content The New England Journal of Medicine homepage …

The US population receives suboptimal levels of preventive care and has a high prevalence
of risky health behaviors. One goal of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was to increase …