Depression, a common and serious illness that is more prevalent among the poor, may limit the demand for health … novel health product, hand sanitizer, in India. We cross-randomize depression treatment (pharmacotherapy) and free … well as product use. Depression treatment improves mental health and increases willingness to pay by 5 percent, implying …

poverty of households with U.S. citizen children by 4 percent. The effect is robust to a number of identification tests …

from unemployment, poverty, physical ill health, and mental illness. The largest proportion suffer from mental illness …

This paper studies how wealth and health inequalities have interacted with the Covid-19 epidemic in a way that has … reinforced inequalities in income, savings, epidemic risk and even individual preventive behaviors. We present in more detail two … papers and their theoretical and empirical results. Recovery and contamination rates are functions of an individual's health …

older children, and reduce risk intolerance and the incidence of negative shocks. These findings suggest two pathways …

Income Project indicate that while, assessed against an absolute poverty line, poverty among Chinese urban residents was … already fairly low in 2007, increasing proportions fell under a relative poverty line from 1988 to 2007. Thus income growth in … urban China was more rapid in the middle segments of the income distribution that at it's lower segments. In 2013, at least …

The study examines the socio-economic determinants of physical health among populations experiencing food insecurity … by an economic recession are associated with deteriorated physical health of food-insecure people. Moreover, the study … found that physical health deteriorations among food-insecure people are associated with older age, female gender …

find that women, urban residents and people with higher income are happier in China. More schooling, better health and …-being in China over the period 2005-2010 during which self-reported happiness scores show an increase across all income groups …. Ordered probit regression analysis of well-being reveals large influence of gender, rural residency and household income …

on the distributional impacts of the pandemic on different income groups in a multi-country setting. Analyzing rich … individual-level data from a six-country survey, we find that while the outbreak has no impacts on household income losses, it … results in a 65-percent reduction in the expected own labor income for the second-poorest income quintile. The impacts of the …