Good health is a crucial part of well-being but spending on health can be justified on economic grounds. The goal of … reducing poverty provides a different but equally powerful case for health investments. However, if policymakers are to … accelerate the substantial health gains of recent decades, especially for the poor in African countries such as Nigeria, the …

offer evidence that children's participation in child labor and schooling responds to economic returns to education in India … and improving the quality of education - in order to lower child labor and increase schooling. … scarce, parental investments in their children's education may not be driven entirely by poverty and credit constraints. We …

We set up an open-economy, three-country version of the endogenous- mortality model of Lagerloef (forthcoming in the … International Economic Review). The model is calibrated to pre-industrial mortality data from England, France and Sweden. Fitting … parameters to match observed rates of correlation in mortality rates, the model can also account for: (1) differences in the …

This paper analyzes qualitatively and quantitatively the e ects of declining mortality rates on fertility, education … survival, a decline in an exogenous mortality rate reduces precautionary demand for children and increases parental investment … in each child. Once mortality is endogenized, population growth becomes a hump-shaped function of income per capita. At …

economic slowdowns are good for health. In contrast, at least overweight increases during slumps. …

A number of recent studies have illustrated the link between health and growth (Gallup and Sachs 2000, McCarthy et al …. 2000, Bhargava et al. 2000). This paper argues that a key mechanism through which health affects growth is via total factor … particular attention to three indicators of health that are particularly problematic in developing regions: malnutrition, malaria …

mountain of empirical evidence now shows, economic conditions and slowly-changing parental education levels determine children …'s school enrollment to a greater degree than education policy interventions. A succession of international meetings has … nevertheless adopted a litany of utopian international goals for universal school enrollment and gender parity in education based …