the present or lower patience will have poorer health outcomes: that is, they will either be underweight (low BMI) or … in turn have implications for their future health. The theory results demonstrate that individuals with higher bias for … overweight (high BMI). The pathway from time preferences to BMI is through food. To empirically validate these predictions, we …

In response to the challenge of sustaining the health gains achieved in the better-performing states and ensuring that … the lagging states catch up with the rest of the country, the Indian government has launched the National Rural Health … Mission. A central goal of the effort is to increase public spending on health from the current 1.1 percent of GDP to roughly …

order to derive testable constraints that bound the effect of schooling on smoking. Data from the Swiss Health Survey …

reduces incidence of underweight, wasting and improves BMI significantly, but it is insignificant to affect weight for age … another proxy for endogenous status has a positive impact on BMI and helps reducing incidence of wasting, but when considered … together with time and exogenous status the significance vanishes. Time still remains significant to impact BMI, underweight …

, such as the disabled, who are already dependent on the health-care system. Furthermore, the data allow us to look at pro …

The public health care systems in the Nordic countries provide high quality care almost free of charge to all citizens …. However, social inequalities in health persist. Previous research has, for example, documented substantial educational …

there is a positive impact of ART eligibility on paternal health, but this does not translate into general improvements of … children's education. Instead, impacts differ by the previous reception of state support. Previous recipients of health …-contingent state support can lose the state support after initiation of ART, as their health improves after ART is initiated. For these …