health workers to either raise awareness about the adverse health effects of smoke from solid fuels and measures to mitigate … them, or raise health awareness along with providing information on the universal cash-back LPG subsidy program or a …Air pollution is amongst the gravest public health concerns worldwide, and indoor sources are the largest contributors …

Viruses are a major threat to human health, and - given that they spread through social interactions - represent a … that they are not cost-effective. We find that expansions of transportation networks have significant health costs in …

parents left behind in the rural area. The impact of migration of the adult children on the health of their left … health care and nutrition; on the other hand, the migration necessarily reduces the amount of time the children have to take … adult children's migration on the health of the left-behind parents. Based on a linear probability model with instrumental …

than 65 mostly eligible for social security retirement programs. For these two age groups the actual development in labor … changes in education and health. Focus in the paper includes also the gender aspect to accommodate stronger cohort effects for … women than for men. The impact on labor force participation from individual education and from self-assessed health is …

that all of the sanitation and health benefits accrue from villages where resource agencies implemented the program, while …

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 …

Based on the German Socio-Economic Panel, the influence of the body mass index on health, earnings and satisfaction is … analysed by gender. Basic results are: health worsens, income declines and satisfaction is poorer with higher body mass index … determined, the health estimates show nonlinear effects but the direction of action is unchanged. Effects on earnings differ …

investigates the effect of early maternal age on offspring human capital development in terms of health and cognition, and relies … maternal age has an overall detrimental effect on offspring health and cognition. We show that children born to early mothers …

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 …