pandemic reduced household income, increased the poverty rate, and worsened wage equality. It increased the proportion of below …Despite a sizable population and modest status as a low middle-income country, Vietnam has recorded a low COVID-19 … fatality rate that rivals those of richer countries with far larger spending on health. We offer an early review of the …

several early-life health indicators. Robust evidence shows that such nutrition supplements effectively increase boys' weight … and reduce their probability of being underweight. No effect is observed on girls of similar age. These health indicators …

This paper estimates the extent to which childhood circumstances contribute to health inequality in old age and … evaluates the importance of major domains of childhood circumstances to health inequalities in the USA and China. We link two … waves of the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) in 2013 and 2015 with the newly released 2014 Life …

This paper examines the extent to which childhood circumstances contribute to health inequality in old age and how the … contributions may vary across key dimensions of health. We link the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) in 2013 … and 2015 with its Life History Survey in 2014 to quantify health inequality due to childhood circumstances for which they …

Childhood circumstances may impact senior health, prompting this study to introduce novel machine learning methods to … assess their individual and collective contributions to health inequality in old age. Using the US Health and Retirement … Study (HRS) and the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS), we analyzed health outcomes of American and …

fuel poverty and a set of well-being outcomes: life-satisfaction, self-reported health measures and more objectively … measured biomarker data. Over and above the conventional income-fuel cost indicators, we also use more proximal heating … fuel poverty and our well-being outcomes. Employing combined fuel deprivation indicators, which takes into account the …

The study examines the socio-economic determinants of physical health among populations experiencing food insecurity … by an economic recession are associated with deteriorated physical health of food-insecure people. Moreover, the study … found that physical health deteriorations among food-insecure people are associated with older age, female gender …

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