In a recent research paper, health economists David Cutler and Adriana Lleras-Muney analyze data primarily from the … National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), an annual cross-sectional household survey administered by the National Center for … Health Statistics (NCHS) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). They find that higher levels of education …

I examine the effects of education on health in Indonesia using an exogenous variation in education induced by an … health. I explore some mechanisms through which education may affect health, but education does not seem to promote healthy … lifestyles, increase the use of modern healthcare services, or improve access to health insurance; if anything, education …

Child health, particularly long-term nutritional status, is closely related to the characteristics of families … increasing the likelihood that a child can access high quality health-care and other services that affect health status. Access …, particularly the education level of the mother or caregiver. In Peru, despite a dramatic increase in investment in health during …

This paper examines gender equality in three important aspects including education, health care and employment in … more likely than men in using outpatient and inpatient health care services. However, for people above 14 years old, men …

the fixed effect partial adjustment model and regresses the human development index on health and education spending …. Results show that while health spending is significant in explaining human development in these countries both in the short … of the human capital in these countries, increased funding of the health sector is necessary. Furthermore, ensuring …

effect of both health and education capital on economic growth and poverty at the district level in Indonesia. Second … the analysis and probed the effects of health capital as well. As far as we are aware, no study has done a direct and … comprehensive examination of the impacts of health on growth and poverty at the subnational level. Thus, this study is the first at …