Despite growing concern about the effect of environmental degradation on human health, little effort has been made to … quantify the effect of ecosystem damage on public health indicators such as the incidence and burden of infectious diseases … response and the effect of deforestation on malaria cannot be explained by post-deforestation land use change, anti …

Using data from a experimental supportive intervention to India's malaria control program, we study the impact of local … three potential sources of this variation (differential population characteristics, differential health worker …

This paper measures inequality of opportunity in adult health in Colombia employing the 2010 Living Standards and … Social Mobility Survey. I study the relationship between childhood circumstances and health status in adulthood drawing on … the conditional distributions of self-assessed health. This test is an initial assessment of inequality emerging from …

’s Commission on Macroeconomics and Health. In this paper, we look at the impact of own household health expenses on malaria … health production function is used to estimate the impact of malaria incidence on agricultural efficiency. Data come from the …The importance of health in promoting economic development has been forcefully stated by the World Health Organization …

This paper uses year-to-year variation in temperature to estimate the long-term effects of climate change on health … surveys,an individual’s health as an adult is matched with the history of heat waves from birth to adulthood. A flexible … econometric model is used to the identification of critical health periods with respect to temperature. It is shown that exposure …

records from the National Farmers' Health Insurance (FHI) program, we examine the effects of the enrollment in the FHI program … health care reforms that have been initiated in other countries, and the United States in particular. …