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 …

In this paper we analyse household income mobility dynamics among Africans in South Africa’s most populous province … role. We also find four types of poverty traps, associated with large initial household size, poor initial education, poor …