understandinghow these shocks can affect the educational attainment, adult health, and adult income of the children who lived through …, education, or health. Through the study of the case of polio, this thesis contributes to our understanding of scarring effects … association between parental loss during childhood and lower adult income, educational attainment, and worse health. This analysis …

We provide novel evidence on the impact of a child's health shock on parental labor market outcomes. To identify the … timing of the health shock. We do this by comparing parents across families in similar parental and child age cohorts whose … children experienced a health shock at different ages. We show that these families have very similar characteristics and were …

Understanding the direct and indirect health consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic is critical in designing a holistic … public health response. This study has two objectives. First, we demonstrated the disruption of essential healthcare services … using data from selected government facilities. Second, we estimated the productivity losses from direct and indirect health …

consumption over time, own (adult) health and inputs into the production of own health, fertility, and child quality or well …-being reflected by their health and cognitive development. They are distinguished from the labor market outcomes of education in terms … these effects operate. The chapter pays a good deal of attention to the effects of education on health for a variety of …

the interactions between human capital, productivity and health are explored. Most of the world's growth in population … raising living standards, improving health standards, and altering time allocation decisions. In most currently poor and …

This chapter provides an overview of the literature on child health in developed countries. I first lay out a simple … economic model of the demand for child health inputs, and discuss whether the evidence is consistent with that model. Next, two … main causes of market failure in the market for child health inputs — lack of information and externalities — are analyzed …

In recent years, significant advances have been made in better understanding the complex relationships between health … level, the integration of insights from the biological and health sciences into economic analyses as well as improvements in … the quantity and quality of data on population health and socio-economic status. To provide a foundation for discussing …