We study the association between the ritual of menstrual restrictions and maternal health- care access as well as women … persistent negative implications on women's physical and mental health that is not just limited to the time of menstruation …. ****** Please cite the published version: Rahul Kumar and Bipasha Maity (2022), "Cultural norms and women's health: Implications of …

The relationship between physical activity and child health and development is well-documented, yet the extant … literature provides limited causal insight into the amount of physical activity considered optimal for improving any given health … comprehensive set of health, non-cognitive development, and academic outcomes of children and adolescents. Applying an individual …

women remains a pressing public-health issue depleting women's autonomy. We establish a causal link between the decision to …. Our findings underscore the importance of reproductive health in initiatives that reduce domestic violence and targeted …

market in the coming decade as well as lasting health impacts due to smoking, policies suppressing unbalanced sex ratios …

all groups. While this could be interpreted as suggesting that STs inherently have better mental health than others, a …

We examine the relationship between wealth and health through prominent growth indicators and cognitive ability …

in a corrupt society has deleterious effects on health. Using individual-level data from 28 post-communist countries, we … demonstrate that bribing for public services worsens self-assessed health. Unlike other studies, we account for endogeneity of … bribery and show that bribing for any type of public service, not just for health services, has an adverse impact. We also …