This paper studies the growth effects of externalities associated with intergenerational health transmission, health …

"Can self-assessed health be relied on to identify the true socioeconomic gradients in health status? The self …-assessed health of Russian adults in 2002 shows remarkably little gradient with respect to economic welfare. The authors document this … finding and assess its robustness to the assumptions routinely made in measuring health and welfare. They find that the …

Interactions between knowledge and health are studied in a three-period overlapping generations model with health … rearing. Growth dynamics depend in important ways on the externalities associated with knowledge and health. Depending on the … strength of these externalities, increases in government spending on education or health (financed by a cut in unproductive …