, and health worker visits in rural India. We estimate the effect of minority representation on the frequency of visits to … villages by health workers by exploiting the state variation in the share of seats reserved for the two groups in state … legislative assemblies mandated by the Constitution of India. Using data from state and village level surveys on fifteen major …

We investigate whether politician gender influences policy outcomes in India. We focus upon antenatal and postnatal … 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 …

specifications similar to those in the existing literature, this paper finds a similar result for India, which is that state health …There are severe inequalities in health in the world, poor health being concentrated amongst poor people in poor … countries. Poor countries spend a much smaller share of national income on health expenditure than do richer countries. What …

This paper studies empirically the consequences of retirement on health. We make use of a targeted retirement offer to … was 60 years of age. Estimating the effect of the offer on individuals' health within the age range 56-70, we find support … government health care expenditures. …

an integrated developmental approach to child and adult health that considers the costs and benefits of interventions … over the life cycle. We suggest policies to promote child health which are currently outside the boundaries of conventional …

This analysis uses data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) and the Survey on Health, Ageing and Retirement in … Europe (SHARE) to assess the effect of ageing and health on the life satisfaction of the oldest old (defined as 75 and older … for the oldest old. This decline is primarily attributable to low levels of perceived health. Once cohort effects are also …