here to be positively related with family size. The relationship between material inequality and heath is the subject of … considerable debate, and there was an inverse relationship between material inequality and stature. The paper also supports a bio …

We estimate and decompose family income-related inequality in child health in the US and analyze its dynamics using the … income-related child health inequality remains stable from early childhood into adolescence. The main factor underlying … income-related child health inequality is family income itself, although other factors, such as maternal education, also play …

We examine the economic and social determinants of suicide mortality in a panel of 25 OECD countries over the period … 1970 – 2011 and explicitly analyze the effects of unemployment and labor market institutions on suicide rates. In line with … a large body of literature our results suggest that unemployment increases suicide mortality, while real economic growth …

In this paper we build a model of trade in vertically differentiated products and find that income inequality can … inequality on the demand for imports is then assessed by examining panel data for 36 developing and developed countries for the … 1980-1997 period. We find significant evidence supporting our prediction that inequality has a large influence on the …

Brain drain is a core economic policy problem for many developing countries today. Does relative inequality in source … source and five destination countries we find selective migration determined by relative anthropometric inequality in source … and destination countries. Other inequality measures confirm this. The results remain robust in OLS and Arellano …