health-promoting public goods, and gather local-level information on workers’ movements to study why elites in … industrializing countries implement policies that improve the health of the poor. Exploiting county-level variation in elite structure …, we present OLS and IV estimates, suggesting that elites improve access to health services due to pressure exerted by …

Economists use micro-based and macro-based approaches to assess the macroeconomic return to population health. The … the macroeconomic return to health. We reconcile the two approaches by controlling for the indirect effects of health … of health. Our results show that the macroeconomic return to health lies in the range of plausible microeconomic …

show that, in terms of health setbacks, children exposed in utero only to the former suffered as much as those exposed to …

Inadequate hygiene during menstruation can have severe consequences, such as adverse health effects, lower educational … health and hygiene explicitly, and relate them to behavior and knowledge. We then provide an information intervention on … menstrual health and hygiene and observe how this changes the perceived social norms. We find that the majority of women report …

demographic and health surveys (DHS) for a maximum of 53 countries and almost 55,000 sub-national locations over the 2002 …

This paper empirically investigates the long-run effects of major health improvements on income growth in the United … States. To isolate exogenous changes in health, the econometric model uses quasi-experimental variation in cardiovascular … disease mortality across states over time. The results show that there is a causal link between health and income per person …

This paper investigates the returns to health care provision during the mortality transition. We construct a new panel … data set covering German municipalities from 1928 to 1936. The endogeneity of health care supply is addressed by using the … expulsion of Jewish physicians from statutory health insurance as exogenous variation in regional physician supply. Increases in …

: direct effects on health, nutrition, and wellbeing, and indirect effects through changes in economic systems, markets, and …

monitoring through routine health checkups for all young children (0-6 years) in China. Using data on the program's county … provide evidence of several underlying mechanisms, including improved physical and mental health, better educational outcomes …, increased cognitive skills, and sustained use of routine health checkups among adolescents. …