decreases, and the two have different implications for human health. An alternative measure for net current biological …

in infant and maternal health. Infants and mothers at the top of the income distribution have worse birth and morbidity …. Racial disparities swamp these income disparities, with no racial convergence in health outcomes as income rises. A … comparison with Sweden shows that infant and maternal health is worse in California at virtually all income levels. …

HDI calculation method nor the decomposition of the HDI into its education, standard of living and health sub-indices. …

children experienced a health shock at different ages. We show that these families have very similar characteristics and were …We provide novel evidence on the impact of a child's health shock on parental labor market outcomes. To identify the … timing of the health shock. We do this by comparing parents across families in similar parental and child age cohorts whose …

with relatively high infant mortality rates live significantly fewer years, that 1st born children in the family live … from a sample of around 5,000 children collected in the UK in 1937-39, who have been traced through official death records … household income only being a significant predictor of death from cancer. Moreover, we find that children born in a location …