driven by women's needs for widowhood insurance. We use a duration model of birth intervals to show that women most exposed … health costs : short birth spacing raises maternal and infant mortality rates. …

poverty trap. We examine changes in public policies: increasing public intervention on health or environmental maintenance … and growth are endogenous. The authorities may provide two types of public services, public health and environmental …

We studied the effect of health events (accidents and chronic diseases) on the occupation probabilities at the … matching estimators, we found that health events have a strong impact on individual labor market histories. The workers … also found that the less quali…ed workers, women, and workers with short term jobs are the most negatively affected by …

reconciled with equity (in the sense that the winners of the coverage increases and the health improvements are the poorer). …

subsequent weeks; consider heterogeneity across prize type, gender, age, and calendar month; and explore differential effects on …

examining the consequences of agricultural primary commodity export on population's health via physical environment degradation …). This environmental degradation from trade worsens population's health (infant and child mortality rates, and life …

survivors health is crucial for the design of post-war economic policies. This paper investigates this question for the … Mozambican civil war, using an original geo-referenced event dataset. I find that women exposed to the conflict during the early … years of life have a weaker health, reflected by a lower height for age z-score (HAZ). Using the Infancy Childhood Puberty …

lie below the Pigovian level (or marginal social damages). This article challenges this finding by arguing that health …

exhibit a too high fertility rate. Furthemore, when health is introduced as another source of externalities, the model shows … that health expenditures have not always to be subsidized. Indeed, the taxation of births plays the role of an indirect … subsidy on health expenditures because it decreases the cost of health relatively to the cost of the quantity of children …