This paper investigates the sensitivity of the intergenerational transmission of health to exogenous changes in income … maternal health by (relative) height. We find that improvements in maternal education, income and public health provision that …, education and public health, changes that are often delivered by economic growth. It uses individual survey data on 2.24 million …

health and survival. But equal rates of growth often deliver unequal rates of poverty reduction and absolute deprivation is … income, indicating the size of survival gains from redistribution in favour of households below the poverty line. The poverty … in poverty on infant survival. We identify a significant within-state relationship which persists conditional upon state …

after the introduction of sulfa experienced increases in schooling, income, and the probability of employment, and …, larger and more robust to specification for men than for women. With the exception of cognitive disability and poverty for …

. Using a novel dataset from the emerging economy of Kazakhstan we find that internal migrants earn an income and status …

public health provision since the costs of poor services in this domain are disproportionately borne by women. Accounting for … are more likely to build public health facilities and encourage antenatal care, institutional delivery and immunization …

This paper is motivated to investigate the often neglected payoff to investments in the health of girls and women in … terms of next generation outcomes. This paper investigates the intergenerational persistence of health across time and … region as well as across the distribution of maternal health. It uses comparable micro-data on as many as 2.24 million …

using two comparable surveys from 1996 and 2004. We measure poverty using income and consumption and contrast the effects of …The paper analyzes the incidence, the severity and the determinants of household poverty in Ukraine during transition … various poverty lines. Poverty in both periods follows some of the determinants commonly identified in the literature …

This paper examines the relationship between measures of income poverty, undernourishment, childhood undernutrition … measures of deprivation, the measures generate some inter-regional paradoxes. Income poverty and child mortality is highest in …