"The authors use data from three waves of the India National Family Health Survey to explore the relationship between … the month of birth and the health outcomes of young children in India. They find that children born during the monsoon … variations in affecting environmental conditions at the time of birth and determining the health outcomes of young children in …

standard income-based measures. The results point to the need for caution in analyzing and interpreting self-assessed health …"Can self-assessed health be relied on to identify the true socioeconomic gradients in health status? The self …-assessed health of Russian adults in 2002 shows remarkably little gradient with respect to economic welfare. The authors document this …

implications for household income. Their results indicate that the burden of conscription falls disproportionately on the poor … of personal income taxes. "--World Bank web site …