This paper reviews the evidence on the well-known positive association between
socioeconomic status and health. We focus on four dimensions of socioeconomic status--education, …

Obesity has risen dramatically in the past few decades. However, the relative contribution of
energy intake and energy expenditure to rising obesity is not known. Moreover, the extent to …

In this review we synthesize what is known about the relationship between education and
health. A large number of studies from both rich and poor countries show that education is …

Classification procedures are some of the most widely used statistical methods in ecology.
Random forests (RF) is a new and powerful statistical classifier that is well established in …

The genetic architecture of autism spectrum disorder involves the interplay of common and
rare variants and their impact on hundreds of genes. Using exome sequencing, here we …

… David Cutler and Angus Deaton gratefully acknowledge financial support from the NIA
through NBER, Grant No. P01 AG05842-14. David Cutler acknowledges support from the NIA …

There is a large and persistent association between education and health. In this paper, we
review what is known about this link. We first document the facts about the relationship …

… trees are large, predictions naively obtained using all the trees will be overly optimistic if
used to predict the response variable for observations that were in the training set \(\mathcal{D}\)…

Importance The relationship between income and life expectancy is well established but
remains poorly understood. Objectives To measure the level, time trend, and geographic …

… account for no more than 10 percent of increased obesity (Cutler, Glaeser and Shapiro, 2003).…
make in this paper can be found in our working paper, Cutler, Glaeser and Shapiro (2003). …