effectiveness and prevalence are important if the government wants to maximize the health gain that it gets from its health budget …

Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent Health. The sampling design of the survey causes the conventional 2SLS estimator to be …

intergenerational transmission or well-being and health. Some studies have proposed to use employer wage differentials and in particular …

account (covering education and training), and a health account (covering insurance against sickness and disability). Unlike …, cushioning people against economic risk, ensuring efficient provision of health and education services, providing social safety …

survey data, we assess six possible explanations for this upsurge in mortality. Most find little support in the data: the … deterioration of the health care system, changes in diet and obesity, and material deprivation fail to explain the increase in … mortality rates. The two factors that do appear to be important are alcohol consumption, especially as it relates to external …

This paper provides evidence on household responses to the relaxation of one barrier constraining adoption of health … Malawi which provides mothers with information on infant nutrition and health. It finds that the intervention results in … funded by increased father’s labor supply, constituting evidence that changes in the perceived child health production …

We estimate how random weather fluctuations affected infant mortality across 28 African countries in the past …

documents the long-run health effects of early life exposure to drought and investigates an important source of heterogeneity in … variation, I estimate long-run health impacts of drought exposure among Africans confined to homelands during apartheid. Drought … long-run effects on health human capital, migrant networks in poor economies provide one channel through which families …

Counterfeit and sub-standard antimalarial drugs present a growing threat to public health. This paper investigates the …