It is conventional wisdom that it is possible to reduce exposure to indoor air pollution, improve health outcomes, and … provide new evidence, from a randomized control trial conducted in rural Orissa, India (one of the poorest places in India … lung functioning or health and there is no change in fuel consumption (and presumably greenhouse gas emissions). The …

labor from local agricultural production leading to more firms. Using major highway programs in India and China, we find …

using enterprise data. The GQ project upgraded the quality and width of 5,846 km of roads in India. We use a difference …

the globe--to evaluate India's varied road construction projects in the early 2000s. Estimating the model requires only … through public sources. We find that India's road investments from this period improved aggregate welfare, particularly for …

-economic effects in terms of living standards, education, health, and gender equality, which appear to be unprecedented in depth and …The COVID-19 pandemic has upended health and living standards around the world. This article provides an interim …

education and marital status though the marital effects are much weaker when we condition for prior health. These effects … health conditioned on prior health as well as the more usual unconditioned estimates. We find that health is related to … in the state of poor health rather than dying …

models two existing hypotheses on the correlation between health and education. The estimation results strongly support the … interdependence between health and education. In particular, the estimated model indicates that an individual's education, health …'s education by 1.4 years. Policy experiments indicate that a health expenditure subsidy would have a larger impact on educational …

-being reflected by their health and cognitive development. I pay a good deal of attention to the effects of education on health …I explore the effects of education on nonmarket outcomes from both theoretical and empirical perspectives. Examples of … over time, own (adult) health and inputs into the production of own health, fertility, and child quality or well …

adulthood in worse health and with less education than wealthier children, these results indicate that a key determinant of …We quantify the lasting effects of childhood health and economic circumstances on adult health and earnings, using data …, educations and social status, that children who experience poor health have significantly lower educational attainment, and …

I study the impact of transportation on health in the rural US, 1820-1847. Measuring health by average stature, I find … on its health. A one-standard deviation increase in market access reduced average stature by 0.14 inches, and rising … Antebellum Puzzle. I find evidence that transportation affected health by increasing population density, leading to a worse …