We investigate the role of social norms in accounting for differences in self-reported health as reported by men and … worse health than men, whatever the health outcome we consider – i.e. general self-assessed health but also more specific … workplace environment and study how the latter affects self-reported health for men and women separately. Our findings indicate …

the city of residence when the woman turned 17 years of age to serve as instruments for college enrollment. The college …

negative effects. (5) The more siblings a woman has and the lower her father's social status, the worse is her health status …Many studies have shown that obesity is a serious health problem for our society. Empirical analyses often neglect a … number of methodological issues and relevant influences on health. This paper investigates empirically whether neglecting …

This paper explores the relationship between gender wage gaps and women's overall health. Using data from the 2011 … the association between wage gaps and self-rated health. Our results suggest that closing the wage gap results in a 1 ….2 percent reduction in women reporting poor or fair health, equivalent to nearly 170,000 fewer women. These effects are more …

While it is well known that education strongly predicts health, less is known as to why. One reason might be that … education improves health-care decision making. In this paper we attempt to disentangle improved decision making from other … effects of education, and to quantify how large an impact it has on both a patientś demand for health services, and that …

's smoking all appear to contribute to the effect. We conclude that, by improving child health, unrestricted unconditional cash …

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 …

This paper contributes to the small but growing literature evaluating the health effects of the Earned Income Tax … federal EITC expansion on several outcomes related to mental health and subjective well-being. The identification strategy … suggest that the 1990 EITC reform generated sizeable health benefits for low-skilled mothers. Such women experienced lower …

local health facilities (both traditional and modern) before and after the completion of the 'Women's Health Project' in …, especially among adolescent mothers after the completion of Women's Health Project. …

selection ; ultrasound ; sex ratio at birth ; gender discrimination ; child health …