food-borne disease, our model also makes predictions regarding health outcomes. We find that child-mortality patterns …

, water quality, and health outcomes of Uruguay's nationalization of water services. An important advantage of focusing on …

about fertility, education of their children and the type and intensity of the investments in their own education. These … formation, little longevity, high child mortality, large fertility and a sluggish income and productivity growth to a modern …

cycle, of several dimensions of economic inequality, including wages, labor earnings, income, consumption, and wealth. After … and the cyclical fluctuations in income inequality. The rise in income inequality was stronger at the bottom of the … distribution. Consumption inequality increased less than disposable income inequality, and tracked the latter much more closely at …

Economists rely heavily on self-reported measures of health status to examine the relationship between income and … no evidence of an income/health gradient using self-reported hypertension, but a large (about 14 times the size) gradient … in low income households. Given the wide use of such self-reported chronic health conditions in applied research, and the …

How do aggregate wealth-to-income ratios evolve in the long run and why? We address this question using 1970 …-2010 national balance sheets recently compiled in the top eight developed economies. For the U.S., U.K., Germany, and France, we are … able to extend our analysis as far back as 1700. We find in every country a gradual rise of wealth-income ratios in recent …