, offering a more holistic approach to improving child health, as quitting smoking is only half of the battle …

-way relationship from births to growth if the panel analysis is carried out with the annual data. Although falling birth rates in China …

infer patterns of intrahousehold allocation. While there is little evidence of gender bias amongst children, adult males … evidence of differential treatment of the elderly and higher birth-order children. We identify substantial economies of size in …

We examine the vertical transmission of overweight drawing upon a sample of English children, both adopted and non …

In India, the out-of-pocket health expenditure by households accounts for around 70 percent of the total expenditure on … health. Large out-of-pocket payments may reduce consumption expenditure on other goods and services and push households into … poverty. Recently, health insurance has been considered as one of the possible instruments in reducing impoverishing effects …

suggests that this may have negative long-term health effects on their offspring. Building upon the work of Almond and Mazumder …’s pregnancy have a poorer general health and are sick more often than people who were not exposed. This effect is especially … pronounced among older people, who, when exposed, also report health problems more often that are indicative of coronary heart …

We investigate if there is a causal link between education and health knowledge using data from the 1984/85 and 1991 …/92 waves of the UK Health and Lifestyle Survey (HALS). Uniquely, the survey asks respondents what they think are the main … causes of ten common health conditions, and we compare these answers to those given by medical professionals to form an index …