We analyze the economic consequences for less developed countries of investing in female health. In so doing we … investments in their education and in which we allow for health-related gender differences in productivity. We show that better … female health speeds up the demographic transition and thereby the take-off toward sustained economic growth. By contrast …

Newborn health is an important component in the chain of intergenerational transmission of disadvantage. This paper … contributes to the literature on the determinants of health at birth in two ways. First, we analyze the role of maternal …

between socio-economic status and health outcomes. We find that, even after conditioning on the initial health status, wealth … rankings are important determinants of mortality and the evolution of the health indicator in the survey. For men aged 65 …

the level of nutrition and health on economic, social, and demographic behavior. It is based on a set of samples covering …

We provide some of the first empirical evidence of maternal and fetal health effects of working during pregnancy by … using a unique dataset from the New Jersey Department of Health that includes information not only on pregnancy and birth …

This paper examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on employment and respiratory health for remote workers (i … college degrees. Non-remote workers also experienced relatively worse respiratory health, which likely occurred because it was … job losses and, to a lesser extent, health losses were highest among non-remote workers from low-income households …

A growing literature argues that early environments affecting childhood health may influence significantly later …-life health and financial wellbeing. We present new evidence on the relationship between child health and later-life outcomes …

pain in mid-life (age 44) on health, wellbeing and labor market outcomes in later life. We examine data taken at age 50 in … chronic pain at age 44 continue to report pain and poor general health in their 50s. However, the associations are much … stronger for those with chronic pain. Furthermore, chronic pain at age 44 is associated with a range of poor mental health …

There is a strong, positive and well-documented correlation between education and health outcomes. There is much less … evidence on the extent to which this correlation reflects the causal effect of education on health - the parameter of interest … education on health. Our approach exploits two changes to British compulsory schooling laws that generated sharp differences in …