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 …

whether payments are only made at the time of death or savings are accumulated by the group based on premiums paid ex … show numerically that a contract with savings makes higher demands on enforceability, leading to less cohesive groups … finding it in their interest to choose the contract without savings and that coalition-proofness is a necessary condition for …

model includes an aggregate production function that explains the distribution of income, while a savings function in which … savings depended on property income governs accumulation. Simulations with the model show that technical progress was the …

production function explains the distribution of income (as in Cambridge, MA), while a savings function in which savings depended …

savings within the household.  We also show that the negative impact of saving within-the-household on investment is more …

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. …

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. …

assess the cost savings that might be feasible in practice from cost sharing. For diagnosis related groups with low cost … variation, the calculated cost savings are approximately 7%. For those with high cost variation, the calculated cost savings are …