This paper investigates the sensitivity of the intergenerational transmission of health to exogenous changes in income …, education and public health, changes that are often delivered by economic growth. It uses individual survey data on 2.24 million … maternal and child health as well as in aggregate economic conditions. The country-level panel is exploited to control for …

When a health shock hits a location, the healthcare infrastructure needs to be adjusted to meet the increased demand … consequences of health shocks induced by air pollution in a megacity in the developing world: Sao Paulo, Brazil. Using daily data … practice of using health outcomes unrelated to pollution as "placebo tests" in studies on the effects of air pollution might be …

from conception to childhood – affect a child’s health trajectory in the long-term. By the 21st century, a wide body of … research had emerged, incorporating the original ‘Fetal Origins Hypothesis’ into the ‘Developmental Origins of Health and … Disease’. Evidence from OECD countries suggests that health inequalities are strongly correlated with many dimensions of socio …

This paper is motivated to investigate the often neglected payoff to investments in the health of girls and women in … terms of next generation outcomes. This paper investigates the intergenerational persistence of health across time and … region as well as across the distribution of maternal health. It uses comparable micro-data on as many as 2.24 million …

We analyze the economic consequences for less developed countries of investing in female health. In so doing we … investments in their education and in which we allow for health-related gender differences in productivity. We show that better … female health speeds up the demographic transition and thereby the take-off toward sustained economic growth. By contrast …