We analyze the economic consequences for less developed countries of investing in female health. In so doing we … investments in their education and in which we allow for health-related gender differences in productivity. We show that better … female health speeds up the demographic transition and thereby the take-off toward sustained economic growth. By contrast …

We estimate and decompose family income-related inequality in child health in the US and analyze its dynamics using the … income-related health mobility index recently introduced by Allanson et al., 2010. Data come from the 1997, 2002, and 2007 … income-related child health inequality remains stable from early childhood into adolescence. The main factor underlying …

pain in mid-life (age 44) on health, wellbeing and labor market outcomes in later life. We examine data taken at age 50 in … chronic pain at age 44 continue to report pain and poor general health in their 50s. However, the associations are much … stronger for those with chronic pain. Furthermore, chronic pain at age 44 is associated with a range of poor mental health …

health. We estimate the causal effect of the 1986 Chernobyl catastrophe after 20 years by linking geographic variation in …

concerned with how mothers’ mental and physical health is affected by whether they place their child in formal day care or not … with regard to mothers’ mental health. Overall, there is evidence that mothers placing their children in formal day care …

the level of nutrition and health on economic, social, and demographic behavior. It is based on a set of samples covering …

We provide some of the first empirical evidence of maternal and fetal health effects of working during pregnancy by … using a unique dataset from the New Jersey Department of Health that includes information not only on pregnancy and birth …

This paper examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on employment and respiratory health for remote workers (i … college degrees. Non-remote workers also experienced relatively worse respiratory health, which likely occurred because it was … job losses and, to a lesser extent, health losses were highest among non-remote workers from low-income households …