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 …

We investigate long-run effects of episodes of hunger experienced as a child on health status and behavioral outcomes … suggest that individual behavior is a pathway between early life shocks and adult health: We find that those who experienced … hunger spend a larger fraction of income on food. Taken together, our results confirm that in addition to the well …

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 …

In this paper, we investigate the long-run effects of World War II on socio-economic status (SES) and health of older … individuals in Europe. Physical and psychological childhood events are important predictors for labor market and health outcomes … rare. We will analyze data from SHARELIFE, a retrospective survey conducted as part of the Survey on Health, Aging, and …

and the HRS, with a particular focus on whether attrition is systematically related to health outcomes and socioeconomic … status (SES). Investigating the links between health and SES is one of the primary goals of the ELSA and HRS, so attrition …

There is increasing interest in neighborhood or area effects on health and individual development. China, due to its … vast regional variations in health infrastructure and geography and relative immobility of older residents, provides a rare … opportunity to study such effects. Utilizing China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) baseline survey 2011 …

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