health and survival. But equal rates of growth often deliver unequal rates of poverty reduction and absolute deprivation is … for education, fertility and state health expenditure, and eliminated once we introduce controls for omitted trends …. -- poverty ; income ; inequality ; infant mortality ; India ; economic reform ; state health expenditure ; panel data …

This paper examines the long-term impacts of growth and development monitoring in early childhood. For this purpose, we … evaluate a pediatric healthcare program, the Systematic Management of Children (SMC), which offers growth and development … monitoring through routine health checkups for all young children (0-6 years) in China. Using data on the program's county …

This paper surveys the empirical literature on the association between growth on inequality in less developed countries …, with a particular emphasis on labor market inequality. Crosscountry studies failed to find a clear link from growth to … inequality increases with growth. The paper argues that the methodologies used in many of the empirical applications, designed to …

This paper examines the relationship between income and witch trials in early modern Europe. We start by using climate … data to proxy for income levels. This builds on previous work by exploiting a far richer panel dataset covering 356 regions … second part looks at incomes more directly, and we find that different measures of income have different effects on witch …

There has been a revival of interest in the effect of risk on economic growth. We quantify both ex ante and ex post … remarkable long-running panel data set for rural households in Zimbabwe. We find that risk substantially reduces growth: in the …, the first micro-based estimate of the effect of shocks on growth. About two-thirds of the impact of risk is due to the ex …

occupations and a reduction in the long-run level of income per capita in the economy as a whole. Exploiting variation in resource …

Over a five-year period in the 1990s Vietnam experienced annual economic growth of more than 8% and a decrease of 15 … distribution of child nutritional status can be explained by changes in the level and distribution of income, and of other … technique that explains change throughout the complete distribution of child height. One-half of the decrease in the proportion …

A consensus has been forged in the last decade that recent periods of sustained growth in total factor productivity and … reduced poverty are closely associated with improvements in a population's child nutrition, adult health, and schooling …, particularly in low-income countries. Estimates of the productive returns from these three forms of human capital investment are …