brink of starvation. We link high-quality military recruits data with objective health measurements for the cohorts born in …

disability and health status to develop a life-cycle framework which rationalizes observed responses of household members to …

National Health Survey. We exploit the collapse of the construction sector to identify the causal effect of job loss. Our …

We identify whether remittances facilitate consumption smoothing during health shocks in Jamaica. In addition, we … interacts with formal health insurance, and whether there are differential effects by gender of the household head. We find that … remittances offer complete insurance toward decreased consumption during health shocks and that moral hazard is weak. The role of …