Health at birth is an important indicator of human capital development over the life course. This paper uses … health policies designed to improve birth weight could improve human capital in resource-poor settings. …

In response to the outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), there have been substantial variations in policy … public health or medicine. To investigate the effects of officials' professionalism on their response to and performance in …-related policy measures, and health outcomes. We show that, on average, cities whose top officials had public health or …

for cities that are farther from the COVID-19 epicenter, are exposed to less migration, have more responsive public health … systems, and have higher-capacity utilization of health systems. Social distancing and a less burdened health system are …

fatality rate that rivals those of richer countries with far larger spending on health. We offer an early review of the … emerging literatures in public health and economics on the pandemic effects in Vietnam, with a specific focus on vulnerable … population groups. Our review suggests that vulnerable workers were at more health risks than the general population. The …

progression of purchasing trends of French households during the coronavirus outbreak. Our results are threefold: First, we … the subsequent weeks of the lockdown. We found these time trends to be similar to those observed in Italy and Spain …

. Based on it, we designed the agriculture-household model, which predicts that health outcomes of child is dependent on …

This paper analyzes the relationship between education and health outcomes using a natural experiment in Turkey. The … attainment to investigate the impact of education on body mass index, obesity, smoking behavior, and self-rated health, as well … statistically significant favorable effect of education on health outcomes and behavior. However, this relationship becomes …

This paper investigates the intergenerational effect of communication barriers on child health at birth using a natural …