This paper explores the relationship between gender wage gaps and women's overall health. Using data from the 2011 …-2019 Current Population Survey, we employ entropy balancing to create comparable samples of men and women and estimate wage gaps ….2 percent reduction in women reporting poor or fair health, equivalent to nearly 170,000 fewer women. These effects are more …

workplace environment and study how the latter affects self-reported health for men and women separately. Our findings indicate …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 …

health. (4) High income helps to improve men's health while deviations between desired and actual working hours induce … influence on health. Women are less affected. (7) A healthy diet strengthens the resilience for individuals who are not obese …) Weight fluctuations induce negative effects on the health of women only. (10) Four of the big five components of personality …

negative reporting of hypertension is more frequent among men than among women, even after conditioning on a series of … that women go to the doctor more often than men do and that they have better knowledge of their family medical history …We investigate the gender gap in hypertension misreporting using the French Constances cohort. We show that false …

Non-unitary household models suggest that enhancing women's bargaining power can influence child health, a crucial … Succession Act Amendment (HSAA), which granted inheritance rights to unmarried women in India, on child health. Our findings … the policy bolstered women's intra-household bargaining power, resulting in downstream benefits through enhanced parental …

on various measures of women's agency and health in India. Identification leverages the plausibly exogenous spatial … relatively high shares of women. The underlying mechanisms include employment gains for women and improvements in women's health …This study on the economics of gender differences examines whether the mining industry acts as a blessing or curse for …

that all of the sanitation and health benefits accrue from villages where resource agencies implemented the program, while …This paper evaluates the effectiveness of a widely used sanitation intervention, Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS … constraints faced by poorer households limit their ability to improve sanitation. We also examine the program's scale up process …

water provision to narrow test score gaps across countries and, within countries, across gender. …We exploit exogenous variation in the risk of waterborne disease created by implementation of a major water reform in … a 0.1 standard deviation increase in test scores, but only for girls. We show that a reason for the gender …

In this paper, we estimate the returns on schooling for young men and women in Turkey using the exogenous and … among 18- to 26-year-olds, the return from an extra year of schooling is almost zero for men and 3.8 percent for women. The … alters the schooling distributions of men and women differently, thus the average causal effect we estimate puts a higher …

impacts. Women exposed to the war in their growing years exhibit reduced adult stature, increased likelihood of being … impacts of war exposure on education. War exposed men marry later and have fewer children. War exposure of mothers (but not … health, the largest impacts stem from adolescent exposure. …