This short essay reviews Gary Becker's contributions and influence in health economics. It was originally prepared for …

from conception to childhood - affect a child's health trajectory in the long-term. By the 21st century, a wide body of … research had emerged, incorporating the original "Fetal Origins Hypothesis" into the "Developmental Origins of Health and … Disease". Evidence from OECD countries suggests that health inequalities are strongly correlated with many dimensions of socio …

Depression, a common and serious illness that is more prevalent among the poor, may limit the demand for health … novel health product, hand sanitizer, in India. We cross-randomize depression treatment (pharmacotherapy) and free … well as product use. Depression treatment improves mental health and increases willingness to pay by 5 percent, implying …

usher in lies at the core of the demographic dividends. However, low human capital, poor health and inadequate physical … endogenous growth model applied to the Indian macroeconomic data, as to whether public expenditures in education, health and …. We deploy a Structural Vector Autoregressive Model on data for shares of public expenditure on education and health as …

pollutants on health. To circumvent this, we use emissions from Kīlauea volcano, uncorrelated with other pollution sources, to …

insurance. Across a range of health measures, we estimate no significant impacts on health. …

health (11-14 percent). In addition, among the age-ineligible adults, the pension scheme shifts them from farming to non …-farming work, lowers insurance participation rate, but does not change income, expenditure or health significantly. Finally, among …, improved health, and higher schooling rate. …

We explore how involuntary and voluntary exits from self-employment affect life and health satisfaction. To that end …-employment exit) brings small improvements in health and life satisfaction, the negative psychological costs of business failure (i … physical health and behaviors such as smoking and drinking, implying that the costs of losing self-employment are largely …

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 …