services, thereby increasing vulnerability to poor health outcomes. To quantify deprivation for each slum, we construct a basic … services deprivation score (BSDS), which includes variables that affect health, such as access to piped water, latrines, solid … waste disposal, schools, and health centers. In a regression analysis, we find a robust association between non …

The positive cross-country correlation between health and economic growth is well-established, but the underlying … causality between health and economic growth is empirically challenging. Second, the relation between health and economic growth … changes over the process of economic development. Third, different dimensions of health (mortality vs. morbidity, children …

cognitive outcomes in young adult life. Additionally, we find that both early life cognitive ability and health seem to have … cohort members according to their height, which we consider a proxy for health status – shorter individuals show a stronger …

life," such as health and equality of opportunity. However, per capita GDP has the virtues of easy interpretation and can … preserves the advantages of per capita GDP, but also includes health and equality. We propose a new parsimonious indicator to …

. First, we cover the role of health in driving economic growth and well-being and discuss standard frameworks for assessing … susceptibility, preferences, and income; and (iii) cross-country heterogeneities in terms of their institutional and macroeconomic … and their macroeconomic repercussions. Fourth, we discuss the health toll and economic impacts of five infectious diseases …

exposure also reduces the probability that an individual's household relies on agriculture as the main source of income by 1 …