health, there is more inequality in the world than if we consider income alone. Such international inequalities in life … hope that economic growth will improve people's health as well as their material living conditions. I argue that the … poverty reduction, there is no evidence that it will deliver automatic health improvements in the absence of appropriate …

pandemic influenced health outcomes. We first document large differences in content between the two most popular cable news …

health debates in the United States for some time. Compression of morbidity would lead to longer life but less rapid medical …The question of whether morbidity is being compressed into the period just before death has been at the center of … spending increases than if life extension were accompanied by expanding morbidity. Using nearly 20 years of data from the …

Accurate estimation of air quality impacts on health outcomes is critical for guiding policy choices to mitigate such … in both air quality and in health impacts that are independent of air quality, confounding pollution-health estimates. To … causal impact of air quality on infant mortality across Sub-Saharan Africa. Combining detailed information on nearly 1 …

poor health of young slave children. The sources of deprivation can be traced to the fetal period. The slave work routine …

on health, including infant mortality, life expectancy, and morbidity by age 20 …This paper provides estimates of the long-term effects on height and health of a large income shock experienced in … regional variation in the timing of this shock to identify its effects. We examine the effects on the adult height, health, and …

to provide novel evidence on economic inequality in infant and maternal health. We find that birth outcomes vary non … birth weight and preterm birth than those in the bottom ventile. However, unlike birth outcomes, infant mortality varies …---have a death rate that is half that of infants of parents in the bottom ventile. When studying maternal health, we find a …

child, using pooled data from 119 Demographic and Health Surveys in 44 developing countries. Compared with compatriots of … one own-child death, or 7 percentage points at age 49. Place fixed effects reduce estimated mortality persistence by 47 …%; socioeconomic covariates explain far less. Within countries over time, persistence falls with aggregate child mortality, so that …

I explore the connection between income inequality and health in both poor and rich countries. I discuss a range of … deprivation. I review the evidence on the effects of income inequality on the rate of decline of mortality over time, on … geographical pattens of mortality, and on individual-level mortality. Much of the literature needs to be treated skeptically, if …

populations above mortality-minimizing bodyweight is not clearly greater in countries with higher overweight and obesity rates (as …