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 …

twentieth century played a role. The primary reason is that those who survive most infectious diseases carry a health burden …

We document the correlations between early childhood health (as proxied by height) and educational attainment and …

, much less is known about intergenerational persistence in health. We examine the correlation in longevity (an overall … measure of health) across generations using a unique dataset containing information about more than 26 million families … health. Moreover, this correlation remained low throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries despite dramatic changes in …