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 …

Economists rely heavily on self-reported measures of health status to examine the relationship between income and … no evidence of an income/health gradient using self-reported hypertension, but a large (about 14 times the size) gradient … in low income households. Given the wide use of such self-reported chronic health conditions in applied research, and the …

The socio-economic gradient in health remains a controversial topic in economics and other social sciences. In this … paper we develop a new duration model that allows for unobserved persistent individual-specific health shocks and provides … by testing if more satisfied people live longer. Our results clearly confirm the importance of income, education and …

determinants of health. If how parents perceive health questions differs by income or education level, then estimates of the … evaluations mean that the estimated magnitude and significance of the health-income gradient is highly dependent upon the choice …A large literature uses parental evaluations of child health status to provide evidence on the socioeconomic …

income and child health. …Passive smoking is a major public health issue. This paper documents the main risk factors that determine children … exposure on child health. Such information is valuable to policy-makers when deciding upon the amount of resources to direct …

Using data from the US National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, and fitting family fixed-effects models of child health …. The health measures cover both physical and mental health, and the cognitive development test scores span (1) Memory, (2 … poor mental health. We also find that left-handed children have significantly lower cognitive development test scores than …

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 …