.  The demand for GP visits is most likely driven by health status, and for women, childbirth. …

This paper presents unique evidence that orphanhood matters in the long-run for health and education outcomes, in a …, allowing us to assess permanent health and education impacts of orphanhood. In the analysis, we can control for a wide range of …

policies.  The overall impact, however, is uncertain.  This study presents fresh evidence on nutrition and health in colonial … crises were, the net outcome of colonial times was a significant progress in nutrition and health. …

also at educational and health aspirations.  Like earlier studies we find that income aspirations increase with both the … aspired to education.  However, with respect to health, we find that people aspire to more rather than less health when …

Using new and unique panel data, we investigate the role of long-term health and childhood malnutrition in schooling …' performance on mathematics and Hindi tests, we examine the role of the endogeneity of health caused by omitted variables bias and … estimators.  We find evidence of a positive causal effect of long-term health measured as height-for-age z-score (HAZ) on test …

Nutrition and health are important dimensions of human well-being. Both aspects are complementary to income and deserve …

according to some unobserved health characteristic, then estimates of the effect of tobacco on health that do not account for …. We show that there is selection into smoking, and considerable dispersion around the average effect, so that health … and nonsmokers will spuriously reveal a worsening effect of tobacco on health if they fail to control for selection. …