Effects of non-minimum wages on health: A narrative
literature review of short- and long-run studies using causal
inference or longitudinal data in high-income
countries
Abstract
Objectives
We reviewed studies examining effects of non–minimum wages on
health using causal inference or longitudinal data in high-income
countries. We excluded studies on direct effects of minimum wages
and on analyses using cross-sectional data without causal
designs.
Maternal Mental Health and Infant Parasympathetic
Activity in the Context of Forced Displacement: Insights From the
Rohingya Camps and Surrounding Communities in Cox’s Bazar,
Bangladesh
Developing and Applying the BE-FAIR Equity Framework to a
Population Health Predictive Model: A Retrospective Observational
Cohort Study
Background: Population health programs rely on healthcare
predictive models to allocate resources, yet models can
perpetuate biases that exacerbate health disparities among
marginalized communities.
Health economic evaluations of perinatal complications
with conflicting maternal-fetal interests: a scoping review
protocol
Perinatal complications involving conflicts between maternal and
fetal health interests present a unique challenge to health
economic evaluations. No comprehensive synthesis exists of how
such studies account for dual-patient outcomes. We aim to develop
a scoping review protocol to map and critically examine the
methodologies in this understudied area.
School shootings are a disturbingly regular occurrence in the
United States. While their direct impact on those involved are
well-researched, their broader effects on communities are less
understood. The authors focus on the underresearched question of
how such traumatic incidents affect community consumption. Using
data from various sources, the authors find that fatal school
shootings decrease grocery purchases by 2.09% in affected
communities, lasting up to six months. This economic impact is
felt more in liberal- than conservative-leaning counties.
In 2022, Yolo County Health and Human Services Agency(HHSA)
launched the Yolo County Basic Income (YOBI)project and engaged
the UC Davis Center for Regional Change to evaluate the project
via the collection of survey data from YOBI participants. The
YOBI project was designed to address the county’s poverty, which
is ~25%higher than the California rate reported in the 2021
Census.
COVID-19 May Have Been Job Related for One Fourth of
Diagnosed Adults
We catch COVID-19 from each other. The fewer people we
encounter,
the safer we will be. Our desire for fewer encounters was
especially apparent in employment arrangements during the first
two and a half years
of the pandemic. Most workers whom employers allowed to work from
home did so; most whose employers did not allow this reported to
their workplaces.
Objectives: To test for the effects of wages on smoking using
labor unions as instrumental variables. Methods: We analyzed four
waves of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (2013 to 2019
alternate years). The overall sample included workers aged 18 to
70 years in 2013 and subsamples within blue clerical/white-collar
and private/public sector jobs (N = 37,117 to 8446 person years).
We used two instrumental variables: worker’s union membership and
states’ right-to-work laws.
Although a growing number of studies suggest that providing poor
families with income supplements of as little as $1,000 per
year will improve children’s well-being, many poor children
miss important sources of income support provided through the tax
system because their parents either do not work or do not
file taxes. Accessing assistance through means-tested programs is
also challenging.
Do mothers’ biological responses to stress transfer to her child?
This is a question addressed in a recently published study by
Leah Hibel of UC Davis and Evelyn Mercado of UCLA. Though prior
reports have shown that mothers help their children regulate
distress through calming and soothing, there are few studies that
examine the ways in which a mother facing stress might transmit
stress to her child. This study shows that mothers transmit
stress to their infants and that mothers’ emotions appear to play
a role in this transmission.
Exclusionary immigration policies have led to a sizeable
undocumented population that is largely barred from access to
resources in the United States, however there is little research
that looks at the impact of legal status on immigrants’
psychological wellbeing.
In this paper Constance Lindsay and Cassandra Hart
find consistent evidence that exposure to same-race teachers
is associated with reduced rates of exclusionary discipline for
Black students.
Summary:
This paper estimates the earnings returns to vocational, or
career technical, education programs in the nation’s largest
community college system.
