This paper investigates the impact of parental education on child health outcomes. To identify the causal effect we … leaving age by one year had little effect on the health of their offspring. Schooling did however improve economic … opportunities by reducing financial difficulties among households. We conclude from this that the effects of parental income on …

Rapid urbanization could have positive and negative health effects, such that the net impact on population health is … and individual level longitudinal data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey to estimate the net health impact of … to identify the treatment effect of urbanization on the self-assessed health of individuals. The results reveal important …

death, covering a window of unprecedented size (1912-2000) are merged with historical data on macroeconomic and health …

This paper tries to establish who carries the burden in supporting reproductive health and AIDS programs worldwide. The … assistance in matters of reproductive health and AIDS. This global effort has so far not sufficiently been supported by funds and … their 'fair share', i.e. their income weight in the group of donors. However, this picture is not true for the finance and …

strictly exogenous to labour market status or labour income. Health and labour market variables are correlated because of …-assessed health measures are usually at hand in empirical analyses and research indicates that these may be affected by endogenous …, state dependent, reporting behaviour. Furthermore, even if an objective health measure is used, it is not likely to be …

Reliance on self-rated health to proxy medical need can bias estimation of education-related inequity in health care … utilisation. We correct this bias both by instrumenting self-rated health with objective health indicators and by purging self …-rated health of reporting heterogeneity identified from health vignettes. Using data on elderly Europeans, we find that …

This study explores global inequality in health status, and decomposes it into within- and between-country inequality …. We rely on standardized height indicators as our health indicator since they avoid the measurement pitfalls of more … traditional measures of health such as morbidity, mortality and life expectancy. They also avoid measurement problems associated …

Understanding of the substantial disparity in health between low and high socioeconomic status (SES) groups is hampered … disparities in health by SES. In our model, lifestyle factors, working conditions, retirement, living conditions and curative care … are mechanisms through which SES, health and mortality are related. Our model predicts a widening and possibly a …