health of low income families. A large body of literature evaluates the extent to which the Supplemental Program for Women … estimate the impact of the program on infant health. We find that the implementation of WIC lead to an increase in average …

This paper uses age-at-school-entry policies to identify the effect of female education on fertility and infant health …. We focus on sharp contrasts in schooling, fertility, and infant health between women born just before and after the … school entry date. School entry policies affect female education and the quality of a woman's mate and have generally small …

twentieth century played a role. The primary reason is that those who survive most infectious diseases carry a health burden …

health, the largest impacts stem from adolescent exposure …

The single largest item in the United States foreign aid health budget is antiretroviral therapy (ART) for the … health in sub-Saharan Africa are surmountable …

We study the impact of health shocks on domestic violence and illicit drug use. We argue that health is a form of human … differences in these women's health prior to the breakthrough. We show evidence that health improvements induced by the … breakthrough reduced domestic violence and illicit drug use. Our findings provide support for the idea that health improvements can …

We analyze the economic consequences for less developed countries of investing in female health. In so doing we … investments in their education and in which we allow for health-related gender differences in productivity. We show that better … female health speeds up the demographic transition and thereby the take-off toward sustained economic growth. By contrast …

implications for population health and the environment: improved cookstoves. Motivated by a model of intra-household decision …

This paper studies the interrelated roles of health and welfare state policies in the decision to take up disability … physical or mental illness. We exploit the large international variation of health, self-reported WD and the uptake of DI … benefits in the US and Europe using a harmonized data set with life history information assembled from the Survey of Health …

To analyze the effect of health on work, many studies use a simple self-assessed health measure based upon a question … such as "do you have an impairment or health problem limiting the kind or amount of work you can do?" A possible drawback … fact that they don't work, non-working respondents may classify a given health problem as a more serious work limitation …