rural incomes in China. Current literature based on analyses of rural income volatility in China decomposes poverty into … poverty gap attributable to mean income over time being below the poverty line. Resulting estimates of 40-50 % transient … urban-rural income gap on which much of current poverty debate in China focuses. Since an uncertain income stream is worth …

This study examines a wide range of health and economic outcomes in a sample of Irish- and African-American Civil War …

inequality and the growth of both income and population, once we control for the initial distribution of skills. What determines … poverty, but today, inequality is more strongly linked to the presence of the wealthy. Inequality in skills can explain about … one third of the variation in income inequality, and that skill inequality is itself explained by historical schooling …

between health resources and income (taken as a proxy for productivity). In particular we determine the efficient level of the … get the same health care. Quantitatively, we find that the amount of inequality across the income distribution in the data …In this paper we study the efficient allocation of health resources across individuals. We focus on the relation …

occupations and whether to commute to work or work from home, to maximize their income and minimize their fear of infection …-imposed lock-downs may not present a clear trade-off between GDP and public health, as commonly believed, even though its immediate …

parental resources during our upbringing that can be influenced by public policy? We study the formation of adult health and … biological and adopting parents. We find that the health of the biological parents affects the health of their adopted children …-term health. However, we also find strong evidence that the educational attainment of the adopting mother has a significant impact …

earnings and family income. We find few differences in estimated gains by baseline health and occupation characteristics …While economists have posited that health investments increase earnings, isolating the causal effect of health is …

, unemployment, incarceration, health, and so on. This chapter contains three themes. First, relative to the 20th century, the …

earlier years of schooling, or whether education raises health directly or through income or wealth. In this paper, I examine … how the timing of educational attainment is important for adult health outcomes, income, and wealth, in order to … pronounced for income and wealth. In the full sample, the marginal effects on the probability of fair or poor health at age 55 of …

There are many possible pathways between parental education, income, and health, and between child health and education … status (as measured by education, income, occupation, or in some cases area of residence) and child health, and between child … health and adult education or income. Specifically, I ask two questions: What is the evidence regarding whether parental …