A positive relationship between socio-economic status (SES) and health, the so-called \health-wealth gradient", is … repeatedly found in most industrialized countries with similar levels of health care technology and economic welfare. This study … analyzes causality from health to wealth (health causation) and from wealth to health (wealth or social causation) for elderly …

In this contribution the authors show that development assistance targeting reproductive health overwhelmingly … 1994. Part of the explanation is that future health needs are difficult to predict, but it also shows how strong the … development assistance for reproductive health is at some points ill-adjusted towards the needs of developing countries. …

biennial waves from the Health and Retirement Study.We find the dynamics of the presence of pain is central to understanding …

This paper studies the interplay between climate, health, and the economy in a stylized world with four heterogeneous …). We introduce health impacts into a simple integrated assessment model where both the local cooling effect of aerosols as … show how some of the important aspects of the equilibrium, including emission abatement rates, health costs, and economic …

are drawn from the new Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE).The empirical analysis shows that health … is multi-dimensional, in the sense that different health indicators have their own significant impact on individuals …' participation decisions.Health effects differ markedly between countries.A counterfactual exercise shows that improved health …

$2 a day poverty headcount measure to changes in mean income and inequality significantly decreases with initial … inequality and the ratio poverty line over mean income - taken as proxies for the initial density of income near the poverty line ….Variations in these proxies account for the large crossregional differences in the income elasticity of poverty during the 1980s and …