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. …

nutrition will have benefits that extend beyond health into education. …Using new and unique panel data, we investigate the role of long-term health and childhood malnutrition in schooling … outcomes for children in rural India, many of whom lack basic numeracy and literacy skills.  Using data on students …

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

The size of adverse selection and moral hazard effects in health insurance markets has important policy implications … inefficiencies created by adverse selection (e.g., mandatory insurance enrolment) may lead to substantial increases in health care … light on this important topic by studying the US Medigap (supplemental) health insurance market.  While both adverse …

Children are increasingly treated as active members in the household.  However, their preferences over consumption and … builds a theoretical and empirical model for children's time and consumption allocations in a household.  We test the … differences in parents' relative altruism.  Families seem to function as market economies in which children trade off leisure and …

It is universally accepted that children have important effects on household demand patterns. This is usually … attributed to the direct effect of children; for example children are food intensive. Alternative inferences are that the … observed correlations between children and demand patterns are due to non-direct effects, such as fixed effects, state …

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 …

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. …