examines the effect of credit, insurance, and poverty (defined as more than just low income). It also explains bonded child …

workers are (i.e. the more their wages rise with employment duration), the more effective will unemployment vouchers be … granted to all low-wage earners regardless of their employment history and are of limitless duration. Our analysis indicates …

laws reduce employment among the least-skilled workers they are intended to help. But they also increase wages for many of …

poverty level, and the health of the population including total health expenditures and the prevalence of HIV/AIDS. The …

health and poverty in Australian families. Taking advantage of panel data, the modelling approach used in this study allows a … better estimation of the causal relationship between health and poverty. The results indicate that the causality between … health and poverty runs both ways and the relationship is confounded by unobserved heterogeneity. In particular, it is found …

unimodal one, the evolution of the health distribution has preceded that of income, global inequality and poverty has decreased …, global inequality and poverty would be substantially underestimated if the dependence between the income and health …

This paper exploits a new source of variation in Head Start funding to identify the program’s effects on health and …

There are severe inequalities in health in the world, poor health being concentrated amongst poor people in poor … countries. Poor countries spend a much smaller share of national income on health expenditure than do richer countries. What … potential lies in political or growth processes that raise this share? This depends upon how effective government health …

We study the causal impact of the minimum wage on employment and welfare in Thailand using a difference …-in-difference approach that relies on exogenous policy variation in minimum wages across provinces. We find that minimum-wage increases have … small disemployment effects on female, elderly, and less-educated workers and large positive effects on the wages of prime …