We use data from the European Community Household Panel to investigate the impact of body weight on wages in nine European countries. When we pool the available data across countries and years, we find that a 10% increase in the average body mass index reduces the real earnings of males and...

The last two decades have seen a growing concern about rising inequality. In a recent book (2012), Economics Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz argues that rising income inequality is one of the main factors underlying the economic and financial crisis in the United States. Wilkinson and Pickett...

We estimate the economic impacts associated with investing in Universal Health Coverage (UHC) of Childhood diseases (Malaria, Diarrhea, Pneumonia), Noncommunicable diseases, Tuberculosis, and HIV/AIDS in ten low- and lower-middle income countries that account for 67% of deaths worldwide, for the...

This paper estimates the causal impact of landmines on child health and household expenditures in Angola by exploiting geographical variations in landmine intensity. We generate exogenous variation in landmine intensity using the distance between communes and rebel headquarters. As predicted by...