Using longitudinal data of the Health and Demographic Surveillance System (HDSS) in Matlab, Bangladesh, covering the … split into two: a “treatment” area where along with standard government services extensive maternal and child health … the treatment area, perhaps because learning effects play a larger role with the available extensive health interventions …

investigates the impact of home births on the health of low-risk newborns using data from the Netherlands, the only developed … important channel contributing to these health gains. …

five waves of the Health and Retirement Study.We also provide model simulations for two widely discussed reform proposals …

A positive relationship between socio-economic status (SES) and health, the so-called \health-wealth gradient", is … repeatedly found in most industrialized countries with similar levels of health care technology and economic welfare. This study … analyzes causality from health to wealth (health causation) and from wealth to health (wealth or social causation) for elderly …

There are many pathways explaining the relationship between socioeconomic status and health; one possibility is that … some normally unobservable characteristic causes people to invest both in their financial well-being and their health. Here … savings decisions and decisions in the health domain. Choices in both domains have long-term consequences and therefore …

biennial waves from the Health and Retirement Study.We find the dynamics of the presence of pain is central to understanding …