variation in the test score convergence across states and racial convergence in measures of health and hospital access in the … earnings gaps match those in early life health and test scores already established. It also addresses caveats in the earlier …

data from Demographic and Health Surveys in rural Mali, where polygyny rates among married women are close to 50 per cent …

We assess quantitatively the effect of exogenous health improvements on output per capita. Our simulation model allows … for a direct effect of health on worker productivity, as well as indirect effects that run through schooling, the size and … using a combination of microeconomic estimates, data on demographics, disease burdens, and natural resource income in …

divorce has persistent, and mostly negative, effects on children that differ significantly between boys and girls. Treated …

In this paper we estimate the opportunity cost of children. The underlying theoretical model is represented by a … and 1970. For the women in the two oldest cohorts, the opportunity cost of two children is estimated to 28-29 per cent of …