-random variation from an insurance expansion targeted at poor households in Peru to investigate its effects on nutrition related …Although a significant number of middle and low-income countries have expanded access to subsidized health insurance …, it still is unclear whether these insurance expansions improve children's health, This paper exploits quasi …

, and height reflects the cumulative price of net nutrition during childhood and resources devoted to an off-spring's health … related to the institution of marriage and household characteristics. There is an inverse relationship between BMI and height …, single women have lower BMIs than women in other household relationships. While causal mechanisms may have changed over time …

Major health shocks can have far-reaching consequences on the welfare of an individual's support and emotional network …. This paper investigates both long-term and short-term spillovers of a major non-communicable health shock, namely a cancer … diagnosis (CD), on the health and well-being of an individual's partner. We rely on data from a longitudinal sample of …

Transport has significant externalities including carbon emissions and air pollution. Public health research has … identified additional social gains from active travel, due to health benefits of physical exercise. Per mile, these benefits …

asymmetric equilibrium featuring household specialization can arise. Examples where the asymmetric equilibrium is welfare …

expectancy increased at the same time that nutrition decreased, indicating that the most important source of increased life … expectancy was not improved nutrition. Physically active farmers had greater BMRs and received more calories per day than workers … in other occupations. White diets, nutrition, and calories varied by residence, and whites in the rural Deep South …

, is an alternative measure to BMI for current net nutrition. Little is known about how weights varied among Mexicans … height and age, two uncontrollable characteristics, indicating that 19th century Mexican current net nutrition varied the …

decreases, and the two have different implications for human health. An alternative measure for net current biological …

outcome has important implications for policy-making. Any public policy aimed at reducing household energy consumption should …This paper develops a pseudo-panel approach to examine household electricity demand behaviour through the household … life cycle and its response to income variations to help strengthen the energy policy-making process. Our empirical …

This paper presents the first investigation of the effects of optimal energy taxation in an urban spatial setting …