There is a substantial debate over the direction of the causal relation between income and health. This is important … for our understanding of the health production process and for the policy debate over improving healthcare. We instrument … income with rainfall measurements by matching satellite information on timing and positioning of 21 rainfall stations to …

life", such as health and equality of opportunity. However, per capita GDP has the virtues of easy interpretation and can … preserves the advantages of per capita GDP, but also includes health and equality. We propose a new parsimonious indicator to …

This paper models the equilibrium dynamics of Malaria disease and aggregate income. It incorporates utility maximizing … private human-host behaviors regarding malaria related health care investments. The paper contrasts how economic and … effects of such public policies on the dynamics of the disease and aggregate income …

unimodal one, the evolution of the health distribution has preceded that of income, global inequality and poverty has decreased …,global inequality and poverty would be substantially underestimated if the dependence between the income and health distributions is …We investigate the evolution of global welfare in two dimensions: income per capita and life expectancy. First, we …