Poverty is strongly associated with worse health across countries and within countries across individuals. However, not … all poor individuals suffer from poor health: the effects of poverty on health vary across place and time. In this review … what is known about policies that may improve the health of the poor. We focus primarily on the modern-day United States …

This study estimates long-run impacts of a child health investment, exploiting community-wide experimental variation in …

We assess evidence from randomized control trials (RCTs) on long-run economic productivity and living standards in poor … focus on cash transfer and child health programs, and show that a meaningful subset can realistically be evaluated for long …

This paper explores whether choice of provider explains any of the observed infant health gradients, and if so, why …

transmission, deworming creates substantial externality health and school participation benefits among untreated children in the …

In this review we synthesize what is known about the relationship between education and health. A large number of … studies from both rich and poor countries show that education is associated with better health. While previous work has … with better health differ depending on the level of development. We illustrate this approach by comparing the effects of …

Education and income are strong predictors of health and longevity. In the last 20 years many efforts have been made to … various studies is ambiguous: the effects of education and income policies on health are heterogeneous and vary over time, and …

investment. This paper uses a randomized evaluation in Kenya to measure the health impacts of investments to improve source water … are much smaller than levels implied by health planners' typical valuations of child mortality, consistent with models in … which the demand for health is highly income elastic. Simulations suggest that, at current income levels, private property …