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Contraception as Development? New Evidence from Family Planning in Colombia
Miller, Grant - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
There has been considerable debate in the last decade about whether or not family planning programs in developing countries reduce fertility or improve socio-economic outcomes. Despite suggestive associations, disagreement persists because the availability and use of modern contraceptives are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005774729
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Health and the Evolution of Welfare across Brazilian Municipalities
Soares, Rodrigo R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
This paper describes the pattern of reductions in mortality across Brazilian municipalities between 1970 and 2000, and analyzes its causes and consequences. It shows that, as in the international context, the relationship between income and life expectancy has shifted consistently in the recent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005050133
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Medium-Term Health Impacts of Shocks Experienced In Utero and After Birth: Evidence from Detailed Geographic Information on War Exposure
Akresh, Richard; Thirumurthy, Harsha; Caruso, German Daniel - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
This paper estimates the impact of armed conflict on subsequent health outcomes using detailed geographic information …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011103521
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Migration, Congestion Externalities, and the Evaluation of Spatial Investments
Dinkelman, Taryn; Schulhofer-Wohl, Sam - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
The direct benefits of infrastructure in developing countries can be large, but if new infrastructure induces in-migration, congestion of other local publicly provided goods may offset the direct benefits. Using the example of rural household electrification in South Africa, we demonstrate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011240282
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The Agricultural Productivity Gap
Gollin, Douglas; Lagakos, David; Waugh, Michael E. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
According to national accounts data, value added per worker is much higher in the non-agricultural sector than in agriculture in the typical country, and particularly so in developing countries. Taken at face value, this "agricultural productivity gap" suggests that labor is greatly misallocated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950838
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The Transformation of Hunger: The Demand for Calories Past and Present
Logan, Trevon D. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
According to conventional income measures, nineteenth century American and British industrial workers were two to four times as wealthy as poor people in developing countries today. Surprisingly, however, today's poor are less hungry than yesterday's wealthy industrial workers. I estimate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005014924
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Imitative Obesity and Relative Utility
Blanchflower, David G.; Oswald, Andrew J.; Landeghem, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
If human beings care about their relative weight, a form of imitative obesity can emerge (in which people subconsciously keep up with the weight of the Joneses). Using Eurobarometer data on 29 countries, this paper provides cross-sectional evidence that overweight perceptions and dieting are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005050188
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The Risk of Out-of-Pocket Health Care Expenditure at End of Life
Skinner, Jonathan; Marshall, Samuel; McGarry, Kathleen M. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
, particularly at older ages. We revisit this question, focusing on health care spending near the end of life using data from the … Health and Retirement Study for the years 1998-2006. We address difficulties with missing values for various categories of … wealth could plausibly buy health: large expenditures on home modifications, helpers, home health care, and higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008627137
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Grandpa and the Snapper: the Wellbeing of the Elderly who Live with Children
Deaton, Angus; Stone, Arthur A. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
experience worse emotional outcomes, including less happiness and enjoyment, and more stress, worry, and anger. In part, these … negative outcomes come from selection into living with a child, especially selection on poor health, which is associated with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969330
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New Evidence on the Causal Link Between the Quantity and Quality of Children
Angrist, Joshua; Lavy, Victor Chaim; Schlosser, Analia - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
A longstanding question in the economics of the family is the relationship between sibship size and subsequent human capital formation and economic welfare. If there is a %u201Cquantity-quality trade-off,%u201D then policies that discourage large families should lead to increased human capital,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005720737