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 …

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 …

addresses this question by estimating the effect of childhood exposure to China’s Great Famine on adult health and labor market … adult health, educational attainment and labor supply. The results show that exposure to famine had significant adverse … effects on adult health and work capacity. The magnitude of the effect is negatively correlated with age at the onset of the …

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 …

Although urban China has experienced a rapid income growth over the last twenty years, nutrition intake for the low … income group declined in the 1990s. Does this imply a zero or negative income elasticity for the low income group? This paper … that income elasticities of calorie consumption for urban households are far from zero, and the lower the income level the …

change in income, inequality, and poverty over the 15 year period and investigates the determinants of poverty. It is found … saving rate of the poor due to an increase in income uncertainty contributes significantly to the increase in poverty … measured in terms of expenditure. Even though income growth reduces poverty, the radical reform measures implemented in the …