Purpose – This paper aims to investigate whether shocks to the health of a self-employed worker in Brazil increase the labour supply of other household members. Design/methodology/approach – Using data from the Brazilian National Household Survey, this paper investigates whether the...

This note presents evidence from Brazil that children who benefit from cash transfer programs have better health indicators than those who live in a nonbenefited household and than nonbenefited children who live in a household that receives cash transfers.

This paper analyzes whether differences in nutritional outcomes between white and black children are related to disparities in socioeconomic status and how improvements in nutritional indicators for each racial group over time are associated with changes in household income, parent's education...

Purpose – This paper aims to investigate whether shocks to the health of a self‐employed worker in Brazil increase the labour supply of other household members. Design/methodology/approach – Using data from the Brazilian National Household Survey, this paper investigates whether the...