Daniel I. Rees’s research while affiliated with University Carlos III de Madrid and other places

... In this Section, we explore the "education gradient" and the potential importance of health-specific knowledge by testing whether the education association is larger for people with a health-related post-school qualification. This analysis relates to the literature exploring the impacts of having a medical degree on health and health-related behaviors; for recent examples, see Frakes et al. (2021), Finkelstein et al. (2022) and Anderson et al. (2023). The evidence from the literature is mixed, with positive, negative and near-zero estimated effects of medical knowledge on health outcomes. ...

Reference:

Horizontal inequity in the use of mental healthcare in Australia

... At least three studies have, however, gone beyond estimating what we are characterizing as the contemporaneous relationship between cigarette taxes and smoking (Auld & Zarrabi, 2015;Friedson et al., 2023;Glied, 2002). Glied (2002) used data from the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to estimate the longer-run effects of cigarette taxes. ...

Reference:

Exposure to cigarette taxes as a teenager and the persistence of smoking into adulthood

... A meta-analysis of the impact of cannabis legality on motor vehicle accident deaths by Marinello et al, 2023 displayed a 10% increase in fatalities in states with legal recreational cannabis markets(46). However, con icting research demonstrates an opposite trend due to substitution effects away from alcohol consumption (47), and studies into the trend in ection of motor vehicle fatalities remain nascent and challenging (48,49,50). ...

Reference:

Trends in Fatal and Non-Fatal Injuries in the United States: Analyzing Incidence and Costs from 2015 to 2022

... Interestingly, they fail to find a significant association between terrorism and trust in these institutions. Restricting the analysis to survey responses shortly before and after terror attacks, Peri, Rees, and Smith (2023) find an increase in trust in the government and national parliaments after terrorist attacks involving at least one fatality, capturing the "rally-around-the flageffect". In a within-country investigation, Dinesen and Jaeger (2013) find a rise in trust in various institutions following Madrid terror attacks. ...

Reference:

Terrorist Attacks and Trust in Institutions: Micro Evidence From Europe

... Studies indicate that there are fewer opioid overdose deaths in states where recreational cannabis is legal (Shi, 2017;Marinello and Powell, 2023). However, other reports suggest that access to cannabis may increase the risk of opioid misuse (Ali et al., 2023;Rhew et al., 2023) potentially resulting in the development of opioid use disorder. In addition to painrelevant areas, CB1 and µ-opioid receptors are co-expressed in areas such as the ventral tegmental area and nucleus accumbens whose activity is critical for the rewarding properties of reinforcing drugs (Wenzel and Cheer, 2018). ...

Reference:

Impact of Δ 9 -Tetrahydrocannabinol and oxycodone co-administration on measures of antinociception, dependence, circadian activity, and reward in mice

... The effects were largest for female students with very strong math skills, the most likely candidates for careers in science. Mansour et al. (2022) further found that, among high-ability female students, being assigned a female professor led to substantial increases in the probability of working in a STEM occupation and the probability of receiving a STEM master's degree. ...

Reference:

Fifty Years of Breakthroughs and Barriers: Women in Economics, Policy, and Leadership

... The result is that our economic understandings of sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender more broadly have evolved to explicitly recognize queer people and their relative socioeconomic position (see Badgett et al. 2024 for a review). The recent research has even tackled critical contemporary issues such as the effects of anti-or pro-LGBTQ + policies (e.g., Campbell and van der Meulen 2023;Harrell 2022;Mann 2021Mann , 2024Rees et al. 2022) and gender-affirming health care (e.g., Glintborg et al. 2024;Mann et al. 2024). ...

Reference:

Introduction to the Special Issue on LGBTQ + Economics

... Historically, diphtheria outbreaks in the 19th and early 20th centuries had devastating impacts, causing high mortality rates before the development of the diphtheria toxoid vaccine [3,4]. The disease was largely controlled with widespread vaccination during the mid-20th century, yet in recent years, there has been a resurgence, particularly in developing countries, attributed to decreasing vaccination rates and waning immunity among adults [5,6]. ...

Reference:

Modeling and predicting the spread of diphtheria in guinea using delayed stochastic differential equations

... However, they show that establishing state-run sanatoriums resulted in about 4 percent reductions in pulmonary TB mortality. Anderson, Charles, McKelligott, et al. (2022) explore the effect of milk inspections in major American cities during 1880-1910 on infants' and children's mortality and find small and insignificant effects. ...

Reference:

Water is Life, Clean Water Means Health: The Effect of Early-Life Exposure to the City-Wide Water Filtration on Old-Age Mortality

... The gender gap in course grades and STEM majors is eradicated when high-performing female students are assigned to female professors in mandatory introductory math and science coursework. (Carrell et al., 2010(Carrell et al., , p. 1101 A later study found these students more likely to enter STEM careers and more likely to earn a STEM master's degree (Mansour et al., 2022). ...

Reference:

Inclusive Faculty Hiring: Promising Practices for Increasing Higher Education Faculty Diversity