On August 11, 1676, a 31-year-old nun named Sister Maria Crocifissa della Concezione was found on the floor of her room in the convent of Palma di Montechiaro in Sicily. She had fainted, her face was ...
This paper provides new evidence on the causal relationship between income and short-term health in the United States. We study a randomized experiment in which 1,000 low-income adults age 21 to 40 ...