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 …

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 …

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

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. …

This paper is a meta-analysis on the relationship between unemployment and health. Our meta-dataset is made up of 327 … estimators. The average effect of unemployment on health is negative, but small in terms of partial correlation coefficient. We … psychological domains of health and that short- and long-term unemployment spells equally affect health. Dealing with endogeneity …

emigration, and provinces with higher public spending on health. Finally, we estimate economic cost of cold and heat waves using …

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 …

We study the retirement effects on mental health using a fuzzy regression discontinuity design based on the eligibility … status. Retirement of partnered men positively affects mental health of both themselves and their partners. Single men … retiring experience a drop in mental health. Female retirement has hardly any effect on their own mental health or the mental …

introduction of pension benefits on the health status, health behaviors, and healthcare utilization of rural Chinese adults age 60 … and above. The results point to three main conclusions. First, in addition to improvements in self-reported health, older … adults with access to the pension program experienced significant improvements in several important measures of health …